...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 rime so little is to be taken for...

...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 jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided l1y the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rime so little is...

...as a thing of itself, to all judicioos 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...

...described in his note prefixed to the Paradise Lost, in these words, " True musical delight consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...variously drawn out from one verse into another." Such, according to his judgment, are the essential elements to good verse, and by due attention to...

...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...

...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 avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rime so little...

...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...

...a thing of it self, 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 little...

...in the preface to Paradise Lost, names three things as essential to true musical delight in poetry: "Apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense...variously drawn out from one verse into another." It is the first and the third of these three requisites that I now have in mind, aptness of numbers...

...delight ; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variouslydrawn out from one Verse into another, 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 little...