"THE "THE VERSE." HE 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 efpecially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to fet off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed fince by the use of fome famous modern Poets, carried away by Cuftom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have expreft them. Not without caufe, therefore, fome both Italian and Spanish Poets of prime note, have rejected Rime both in longer and shorter Works, as have alfo, long fince, our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true mufical delight; which confifts only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the fenfe variously drawnout from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rime, fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to Heroic Poem from the troublefom and modern bondage of Rimeing." Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante' VII. [On his being arrived to the age of Twenty-three] VIII. [When the Affault was intended to the City] IX. [To a virtuous young Lady] J JOHN MILTON, (a) of Bread Street, London, PHILLIPS, MARY, eldest d.—JOHN MILTON (c) the poet, b. of Richard Pow- 9th, and baptized at Allhallows, ell of Foreft Bread St. London, 20 Dec. 1608. Hill, near Shot- Admitted of Chrift's College, Camb. over, aforesaid, 12 Feb. 1624-5. B. A., 1628-9. a Juftice of the M. A., 1632, Latin Sec. to CromPeace. Mar. well and the Parliament till Car. 1643: died in II. Died 8 Nov. 1674 (d) in Artilchildbed, circa lery-walk, Bunhill Row. Buried 1652. 12th of the fame month in the chancel of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Will (nuncupat.) dated 20 July, 1674. Adm. to Elizabeth his Relict, 25 Feb. 1674-5. ABRAHAM, bapt. June 2, 1703, mar. Anna, Sept. 1725. 1 MARY, registered 2 April, 1727. CALEB CLARKE, married at Fort St.-MARY. W d p Other children d. infants. 08. (An infant da. died 1625, fee Milton's Stan zas on her T ta a MARY, b. 17 March, 1706, buried Dec. 15, 1706. ISAAC CLARKE, Sev ANN, bapt. 1691; font wife of Savell, to 1728. WILLIAM MOORE, of Byfleet,=MARY CORY, alias Raq. b. 1716, took co. Surrey jure uxoris : died 7 Jan. 1760. mar. between 17561742. Became a 1759. Adm. July, ir Francis Dash5 Dec. 1793. |
