...Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both...

...to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers,0 fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both...

...Paradise Lost as A thing of it self, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another. Milton's objections, that searching for 'the jingling sound of like endings' inhibits...

...thing of it self, to all judicious ears, triveal and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both...

...perfect lucidity, Milton described the "true musical delight" of the verse of Paradise Lost as consisting in "apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." There is more in this account of the verse than "true musical delight," something that...

...tragedies". La musicalitä del verso, argomentava Milton, poteva fare a meno della rima se sapeva fondarsi su „apt numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another" 25 , e proprio l'attento equilibrio (nient'affatto facile e spesso ottenuto con arditezze...

...tragedies". La musicalitä del verso, argomentava Milton, poteva fare a meno della rima se sapeva fondarsi su „apt numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another"25, e proprio l'attento equilibrio (nient'affatto facile e spesso ottenuto con arditezze...

...(see Mathieu; the underlining is Melville's in his copy). True "musical delight," Milton declared, "consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings" (Melville's underlining). In The Poetical...

...Milton's explanation for "why the Poem Rimes not," he states that we might find "true musical delight" in "apt Numbers, fit Quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both...