 | John Milton - 1893
...rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 356 sivua
...Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson, Raman Selden - 1989 - 970 sivua
...Paradise Lost about rhyme's 'being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse . . . but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre'. There is more to notice here than simply the irony of Young's borrowing from Milton in the cause of... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton, Jessica Osborn, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Maynard Mack Professor of English Claude Rawson, Marshall Brown, Claude Julien Rawson, Alastair J. Minnis, Christa Knellwolf, Ian Richard Johnson, A. Walton Litz, Raman Selden, Louis Menand, Rafey Habib, Lawrence S. Rainey, Christopher Norris, Christa Knellwolf King - 1989 - 782 sivua
...rejects the contemporary courtly fashion of rhymed couplets in favour of blank verse. Terming rhyme 'the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter, and lame metre', Milton argues that rhyme arrests meaning in a way analogous to the processes by which monarchs suppress... | |
 | Hildegard L. C. Tristram - 1991 - 319 sivua
...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and Virgil in Latin, rime being.. .but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre". (Milton, Poetical Works, p. 43). 7Cf. Tristram, "Mdtriques". Vf. Bernhard Bischoff, "Die europäische... | |
 | Burton Raffel - 2010
...Riming," which, Milton declaims, is "no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, . . . but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter.") The use of syllable counting, plus the new emphasis on rhyme, also allowed English poetry... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 367 sivua
...But that is precisely what happened. Introducing Paradise Lost (1674), John Milton identified rime as "the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ...... | |
 | Gerald MacLean - 1995 - 292 sivua
...-"rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre "-and observe the proud political gesture at the close, where Milton argues Paradise Lost as epic of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 439 sivua
...Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but must... | |
 | Jane H. M. Taylor, Edith McMorran, Guy Leclercq - 1996 - 185 sivua
...even the most elevated rhymed utterance. Milton found rhyming 'a troublesome and modern bondage ... the invention of a barbarous age to set off" wretched matter and lame meter', and even Pope, the greatest virtuoso of rhyme in the English language, found on occasion a... | |
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THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off... 
