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" 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 of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers,... "
Oeuvres complètes de M. le vicomte de Chateaubriand: Oeuvres littéraires ... - Page 169
by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843
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Observations on Poetry, Especially the Epic:: Occasioned by the Late Poem ...

Henry Pemberton - 1738 - 192 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another; not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry, and all good oratory. Milton in the preface ft Paradife kjl. when he ends his verfe with a fyllable, which in profe is not...
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Critical Observations on Shakespeare

John Upton - 1746 - 382 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly " drawn out from one verfe into another, not *' in the ' jingling found of like endings, a fault " avoided by the learned...and all good oratory. This neglect then of " rime fo little is to be taken for a defect:, though " it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, •' that...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1750 - 674 pages
...fyllables, and die fenfe variously drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This negledt then of rime fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This negleft then of rime fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients...poetry and all good oratory. This neglecT: then of rime fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather...
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Milton's Paradise lost, a poem. With prefatory characters of the several ...

John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...of fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one wrfe into another, not in the jinglmg found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it roay feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, that...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 278 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This negleft then VOL. I. B of of rhyme fo little is to be taken for a defeft, though it may fecm fo perhaps...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1784 - 276 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, that...
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Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E ...

John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe Tarioufly drawn out from one verfe into another ; not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients...poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme fo little is to be taken for a defect, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar readers, that...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 10

English poets - 1790 - 278 pages
...fyllables, and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe into another, not in the jingling found of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned Ancients both in poetry and all good oratory^ This negleft then of rhyme fo little is to be taken for a defeft, though it may feem fo perhaps to vulgar...
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