 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 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 the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients, both... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...tragedies : asa 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 the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another ; not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, 6t quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another ; not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious enrs, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients, both... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...us, " that true musical delight does not consist in rhyme, or the jingling sound of like endings, but only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Yet however the sentence be often prolonged beyond the end of the line, this does by... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...stage." us a thing; of itself, to all judicious cars, trivial, and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings ; a. fault avoided by the learned ancients,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables,...sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned ancients both in poetry and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious cars, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables,...sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned ancients both in poetry and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 688 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 the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another ; not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients,... | |
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... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another... 
