 Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers,...  Paradise Lost - Page 113by John Milton - 1851 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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...sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients, both in poetry and all good oratory. This negleft then of rhyme so little is to be taken... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight : IV which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients, both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken... | |
 | Francisco Manuel do Nascimento - 1806 - 478 pages
...trivial, and of no true musical delight : which consists only in apt members , fit quantity of syllabes , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another; not in the jingling sound of lite endings; a fault av .ided^ty the learned ancients, both in poetry, and all good ora-- tory. This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...as a thing of itself, to all jutlickms ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...one verse into another ; not in the jingling sound oflike endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients, both in poetry and all good orator)-. This... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...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...sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients, both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...and beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial thing, and of no true musical delight; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial thing, and of no true musical delight ; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...beauty of this metre. Rhyme is a trivial' thing, and of no true musical delight; for that consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, and not in the jingling sound of like endings, which, among the learned ancients, was ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...a thing of itself, to all judicious eares, triveal 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 to another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned ancients both... | |
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