 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...  The Works of Edmund Spenser - Page xxviiby Edmund Spenser - 1902 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; rime being no necessary adjunft 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 meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...and of Virgil in Latin ; 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 ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...and of Virgil in Latin : 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; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modem poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; 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; graced -indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...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 wretched matter and lame meeter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...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 wretched matter and lamemeeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...Virgil in Latin; ihyme being no necessary adjunct, or true ornament, of poem or good verse, in larger 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 wretched matter and lame Metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 wretched matter and lame Metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their... | |
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