 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 516 pagine
...some approach to that which is called the lapidary style; has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could urge in its defence, has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever be the advantage of rhyme,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1888 - 468 pagine
...often please, nor can rhyme ever be safely spared, but where the subject is able to support itself. Of the Italian writers without rhyme whom Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could- urge in its defence has been confuted by the ear. * * Like other heroes, Milton is to... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1889 - 466 pagine
...often please, nor can rhyme ever be safely spared, but where the subject is able to support itself. Of the Italian writers without rhyme whom Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could urge in its defence has been confuted by the ear. * * Like other heroes, Milton is to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 626 pagine
...some approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....without rhyme, whom Milton alleges as precedents, 3 not one is popular ; what reason could urge in its defence, has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1896 - 474 pagine
...some approach to that which is called the lapidaryi_style^has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and .therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could urge in its defence has been confuted by the ear. / But, whatever be the advantage of... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1902 - 502 pagine
...English poetry will not often please. . . . Blank verse . . . has neither the easiness of prose nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular." Such was the strength of his prejudice; mark now the sublimity of his surrender : " But whatever be... | |
 | 1902 - 522 pagine
...English poetry will not often please. - - - Blank verse . has neither the easiness of prose nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular.” Such was the strength of his prejudice; mark now the sublimity of his surrender: “But whatever be... | |
 | Ewald Pommrich - 1902 - 96 pagine
...giornate del mondo creato" dieselbe metrische Form haben; wenigstens könnte er sonst nicht sagen: „Of the Italian writers without rhyme, whom Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular" (S. 118). Nichts liegt aber näher als ') Vgl. Wülker, Arthursage S. 22. 2) Die Übertragung der Äneide... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pagine
...makes some approach to that which is called lapidary style; has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could urge in its defence has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever be the advantage of rhyme,... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pagine
...makes some approach to that which is called lapidary style; has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance....Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular; what reason could urge in its defence has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever be the advantage of rhyme,... | |
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melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance. Of the Italian writers without rhyme, whom Milton alleges as precedents, not one is popular ; what reafon could urge in its •defence, has been confuted by the ear. But, whatever be the advantage... 
