 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 pągines
...used it; for, whatever causes he alleges for the abolishing of rhyme, . . . his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it." Rapin, who held a position as a critic which no one of his... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1885 - 60 pągines
...Dryden continues, " Whatever causes Milton alleges for abolishing rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it ! " And Dryden says all this iii the face of the Penseroso and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 pągines
...rhyme : " Whatever causes he [Milton] alleges for the abolishment of rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it : which is manifest in his Juvenilia, . , . where his rhyme is... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 pągines
...rhyme: " Whatever causes he [Milton] alleges for the abolishment of rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his Juvenilia, . . . where his rhyme is... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 416 pągines
...rhyme : " Whatever causes he [Milton] alleges for the abolishment of rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it : which is manifest in his Juvenilia, . . . where his rhyme is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pągines
...31st, 1779). Dryden bluntly affirms that " Milton's own particular reason " (for not' using rhyme) " is plainly this — that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it, which is manifest in his 'Juvenilia,' or verses written in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pągines
...for the abolishing of rhyme (which I have not now the leisure to examine), his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it ; which is manifest in his i Juvenilia, or verses written in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pągines
...rhyme : "Whatever causes he [Milton] alleges for the abolishment of rhyme, his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it nor the graces of it : which is manifest in his ' Juvenilia,' . . . where his rhyme... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pągines
...for the abolishing of rhyme, (which I have not now the leisure to examine,) his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it; which is manifest in his " Juvenilia," or verses written in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pągines
...for the abolishing of rhyme, (which I have not now the leisure to examine,) his own particular reason is plainly this, that rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it; which is manifest in his Juvenilia, or verses written in his... | |
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Juvenilia,' or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced, and comes hardly from him, at an age when the soul is most pliant, and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer though not a poet. 
