 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 113by John Milton - 1851 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1913 - 280 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 dramatic... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...ears, trivial and of no true musical delight." This true poetic delight, he then defined, as consisting "only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, not in the jingling sound of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients in... | |
 | 1913 - 594 pages
...troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing. Er lehnt also den Reim vollständig ab; als Ersatz preist er „apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the...variously drawn out from one Verse into another." Das Beispiel Miltons war in der Tat BÖ bedeutend, daß durch seinen Einfluß der Reim aus der epischen... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - 1913 - 336 pages
...***** True musical delight — consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the same variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings. * * * This neglect then of Rime, so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps... | |
 | Sergei Eisenstein - 1947 - 316 pages
...for enjambement in the introduction to Paradise Lost: . . . true musical delight . . . consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the...sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another . . ,28 * Julian and Maddalo. Paradise Lost itself is a first-rate school in which to study montage... | |
 | Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 pages
...movement of poetry in the history of English literary criticism: True musical delight . . . consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...sense variously drawn out from one verse into another. (457) The first two of these properties are clearly metrical phenomena, however problematic Milton's... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pages
...thing of it self, to all judicious ears, triveal and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...tragedies, 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... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin - 1998 - 418 pages
...expand upon Daniel's comments on number and the propitious use of meter: true musical delight "consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and...the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another."28 Milton, in his attempt on "Things unattempted," itself a trope indebted to the inexpressibility... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 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 both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rime so little is to be taken for... | |
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