 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 572 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pągines
...for the abolishing of rhyme, (which I have not now the leisure to examine,) hts 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 ; 5 which is manifest in his Juvenilia, or verses written in... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 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... | |
 | Gerald M. MacLean - 1995 - 314 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.44 Perhaps it is surprising that after so many years Dryden... | |
 | Richard H. Lansing - 2003 - 432 pągines
...that "whatever Causes he (Milton] alledges 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" (The Works of John Dryden, HT Swedenberg, gen. cd. [Berkeley:... | |
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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. 
