 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...Tragedies, as a thing of it self, to all judicious eares, triveal 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 15 of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients... | |
 | Naomi Norsworthy - 1908 - 648 pages
...to be measured rather than accentual verse. Milton12 speaks of the musical delight in poetry jvhich "consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Chas. Kingsley13 holds that English verse is not regulated by accent but by length of... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1909 - 254 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1909 - 236 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 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... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...ears, trivial and of no true musical delight." This true poetic delight, he then defined, as consisting "only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and...sense variously drawn out from one verse to another, not in the jingling sound of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients in poetry and... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1913 - 280 pages
...all judicious ears, trivial and of no musical delight"; his definition of true metre as consisting " in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another" (cf. § 4, on Rhythmical Pause), may, with certain allowances, hold good for stately... | |
 | 1913 - 594 pages
...troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing. Er lehnt also den Reim vollständig ab; als Ersatz preist er „apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another." Das Beispiel Miltons war in der Tat BÖ bedeutend, daß durch seinen Einfluß der Reim... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - 1914 - 230 pages
...lame metre 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... | |
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... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another... 
