...adopted by Milton. He was bold enough to denounce Rhyme as " the jingling sound of like endings," as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre " but he showed at the same time that none could afford to despise those minor artifices which...

...which was unknown to Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, and was even despised by Milton as " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre, as the jingling sound of like endings trivial to all judicious ears and of no true musical delight."...

...Milton condemns rhyme as " the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretehed matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation hindrance and constraint, to express many things otherwise and for the most part...

...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...famous modern Poets carried away by Custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and restraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part...

...that our common English blank verse got or maintained the hold it has. The objection that rhime was ' the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' rests on ignorance of its real history. It cannot be considered as the exclusive invention...

...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhyme, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness...

...single rhyme. It is surprising that Milton, who used rhyme with admirable skill, should speak of it as the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre. In the universality of rhj^me, as in the further fact that it is peculiar neither to the rudeness...

...that our common English blank verse got or maintained the hold it has. The objection that rhime was ' the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre,' rests on ignorance of its real history. It cannot be considered as the exclusive invention...

...Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age to set off wretched matter and lame Mceter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets carried away by Custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and restraint, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part...

...equivalent to Verse, who had just before declar'd against Anne, as no true Ornament to good Verse, but the Invention of a barbarous Age , to set off wretched Matter and lame Meeter. I am persuaded, this Passage was given thus: welcher Vorrede und Zueignung schreiben musste. Den Text...