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" 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 113
by John Milton - 1851 - 415 pages
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1879 - 232 pages
...there is a passage which re. 1 dicioiui 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, markably coincides with this preface of...
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...(1571), there is a passage which re1 dicious 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, markably coincides with this preface of...
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The Life of John Milton: 1660-2674

David Masson - 1880 - 880 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...of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for...
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English Poems, Volume 1

John Milton - 1880 - 474 pages
...to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numberi, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously...sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is to be 'taken for...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ...

John Milton - 1881 - 894 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...not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rime, so...
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A Handbook of Poetics: For Students of English Verse

Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 264 pages
...all judicious ears, trivial and of no musical delight"; his definition of true metre as consisting " in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the...sense variously drawn out from one verse into another " (cf. § 4, on Rhythmical Pause), may, with certain allowances, hold good for stately epic and for...
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Paradise Lost: With Introd., Notes, and Diagrams, Book 1

John Milton - 1886 - 232 pages
...there is a passage which re1 dicious 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, markably coincides with this preface of...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1886 - 634 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 onc verse into another, not hi the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients...
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Paradise Lost: Book I

John Milton - 1887 - 180 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 20 both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1892 - 654 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...of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for...
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