...could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket.' Southey's Camper, iii. 3I5' One of the most natural instances of the effect of...Johnson's Works, vii. 141. In the Life ofRoscommon (t'p. p. 171), he says: — 'A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme, is so near to prose, that the...

...thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket.' Southey's Ccnvper, iii. 315. 1 One of the most natural instances of the effect of...the eye." ' Johnson's Works, vii. 141. In the Life of Roscommon (ib. p. 171), he says: — 'A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme, is so near to prose,...

...distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive 30 where the lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to...

...distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive 10 where the lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to...

...distinct system of sounds, and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the 20 measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and...

...I am ready to depose on oath that I find every syllable as distinguishably and clearly either long of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank...or begin. ' Blank verse,' said an ingenious critick *t ' seems to be verse only to the eye V Poetry may subsist without rhyme, but English poetry will...

...Paradise 32— 2 Lost had been written in rhyming heroic couplet ; " The variety of pauses," he says, " so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes...of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer." But then turn to his criticism on those poets whose theory of poetry agreed with his own — such as...

...distribution of pauses, on which point Dr. Samuel Johnson in his famous life of Milton declares that " the variety of pauses so much boasted by the lovers...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skillful and happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the lines begin or...

...Thomsons 'Seasons' und Youngs 'Night Thoughts' (Hill I 194, III 299, 395). Aber er wehrt sich gegen „the variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse", weil sie „changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer" (Hill I 193). —...

...distinct system of sounds and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be verse only to the eye. Poetry may subsist without rhyme, but English poetry will...