 | 1909 - 502 oldal
...verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some...for the most part worse, than else they would have expresssd them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1898 - 184 oldal
...who are censured by the author of Paradise Lost, the talkers of slang are " carried away by custom, to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them." The poverty of their vocabulary makes appeal to the brotherly sympathy of a partial... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 oldal
...verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some...part worse than else they would have expressed them . . . This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 oldal
...especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - 2010 - 333 oldal
...age, to set off wretched matter with lame Meter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modem Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their own...for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them." The whole prefatory paragraph is a fine spate of special pleading, a veritable "example... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 oldal
...meter," and in the poem itself he scorned chivalric romance. Rime had, he conceded, been "graced ... by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom," but it was nevertheless "a fault avoided by the learned ancients" and one that should be avoided still.... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 oldal
...especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but must to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 oldal
...verse (in longer works especially), but the invention of a barbarous tge to set off wretched matter and lame metre — graced indeed since by the use of some...Italian and 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... | |
 | David Baker - 1994 - 288 oldal
...the possibility, and went so far as to renounce its most binding device, the rhyme; it is employed by Some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom,...part worse, than else they would have expressed them. But greater purists might apply this logic to all the rest of the metrical devices. We turn to Milton's... | |
 | Peter W. Flint, Patrick D. jr Miller, Aaron Brunell, Ryan Roberts - 2005 - 717 oldal
...periods were, to borrow a phrase, "carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, constraint to express many things otherwise, and for...worse, than else they would have expressed them." 16 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Freedman, DN "Acrostic and Metrics in Hebrew Poetry," HTR 65 (1972) 367-92.... | |
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Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets,... 
