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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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Nova Solyma, the Ideal City: Or, Jerusalem Regained, Volume 1

John Milton, Samuel Gott - 1902 - 396 pages
...original edition with the fifth title-page. He describes "true musical delight" thus: "Which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of light endings." This exposition is clear enough in a general way, and I hold he is even more explicit...
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Nova Solyma, the Ideal City, Or Jerusalem Regained: An Anonymous Romance ...

John Milton - 1902 - 398 pages
...original edition with the fifth title-page. He describes " true musical delight " thus : " Which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of light endings.'' This exposition is clear enough in a general way, and I hold he is even more explicit...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1903 - 396 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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A Handbook of Modern English Metre

Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 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...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... is...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1903 - 446 pages
...all-sufficiency of Blank Verse for " true musical delight," he says that such true musical delight " consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...variously drawn out from one verse into another." Now, in this sense, I think I can report with some certainty that the most frequent Caesura in Milton's...
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The Metre of Macbeth: Its Relation to Shakespeare's Earlier and Later Work

David Laurance Chambers - 1903 - 84 pages
...VERSE. When Milton wrote in his preface to Paradise Lost of " true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...variously drawn out from one verse into another," he expressed an empirical truth about the harmony of blank verse, which it had taken more than a century...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 3

William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 pages
...artificial than it is found to be in any drama. His object, as he says, was to compose periods with "the sense variously drawn out from one verse into...another, not in the jingling sound of like endings." For this purpose he united all the artifices found in the usage of his predecessors. His sentences...
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, Volume 1

John Milton - 1904 - 328 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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Paradise Lost, Book 1

John Milton - 1907 - 276 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...jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the 1 Preceded by some remarks from the publisher : The Printer to the Reader. Courteous Reader, there...
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 2

1907 - 466 pages
...authority that the heroic line contains three principal elements which he calls ' apt numbers,' a ' fit quantity of syllables ' and ' the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another.' The poet, therefore, as was his wont, set nothing above true harmony. He insisted on the due number...
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