...writing in rhyme till he was past fifty, he finds it unsuitable for his epic, and it at once becomes " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." If the structure of his mind be undramatic, why, then, the English drama is naught, learned...

...writing in rhyme till he was past fifty, he finds it unsuitable for his epic, and it at once becomes " the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." If the structure of his mind be undramatic, why, then, the English drama is naught, learned...

...Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homers in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer AVorks especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...

...is a fetter, and our Milton, when apologising for its omission in the Paradise Lost, called it " tho invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre." Tet hU own lyrics show with what perfect ease aud incomparable grace he could wear the chain....

...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...in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a harharous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meeter ; grac't indeed since by the use of some...

...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...barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much...

...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...barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much...

...measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer iu Greek, and of Virgil in Latin ; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem...barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre; graced indeed by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their...

...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...barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much...

...English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin, rime being ho necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good...especially, but the invention of a barbarous age to set oft' wretched matter and lame metre ; geaced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried...