 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...variety of paufes, fo much boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafuresof an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are...lines end or begin, Blank verfe, faid an ingenious critidc, feems to be verfe only to the eye. Poetry may fubfift without rhyme, but Englifh poetry will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...changes the meafures of an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few fldlful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank wrfe., faid an ingenious eritick, feems to he verfe only to the eye. Poetry may fubfift without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...the meafures of sin Englim poet to the periods of a decl aimer ; and there are only a few fltilful and happy readers •of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or i>egin. Blank verfe, faid an ingenious critick, feemt to be only to the eye. Poetry may fubfift without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...paufes, fo much bcaftcJ by the. lovers oC blank veric, changes the rneafures of an Englifh poet $o the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few...audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank verje, faid an ingenious critick, feems to be Vcrfe only to the eye. ' Poetry raay fubfift without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who .enable their audience...poetry will not often pleafe ; nor can rhyme ever be fafely fpared but where the fubje& is able to fupport itfelf. Blank verfe makes fome approach to that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh, poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience...or begin. Blank verfe, faid an ingenious critick, fcems to be verfe only to the eye. Poetry may fubfift without rhyme, but Englifh poetry will not often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...variety of paufes, fo much boafted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh pdet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only...critick, feems to be verfe only to the eye. Poetry may fubnft without rhyme, but Englifh poetry will not often pleafe; nor can rhyme ever be fafely fpared... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience...to perceive where the lines end or begin. " Blank verse (said an ingenious critic) seems to be verse only to the eye." Poetry may subsist without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...measures of an English port to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. • rse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to the eye. Poetry may subsist without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...variety of paufes, fo much boalted by the lovers of blank verfe, changes the meafures of an Englifh poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are...or begin. Blank verfe, faid an ingenious critick, fcems to be verfe only to the eye. Poetry may fubfift without rhyme, but Englifh poetry will not often... | |
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... and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who... 
