...distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by i the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ;131 and there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive where the...

...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...the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer;134 and there are only a few happy readers of Milton who enable their audience to perceive...

...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...

...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...audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Slunk verse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be verse only to the eye. Poetry may subsist without...

...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...audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank cerse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be cerse only to the eye. Poetry may subsist without rhyme,...

...as a distinct system of sounds, and this distinction can only be obtained by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet into the periods of a declaimer, and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton who enable...

...distinct 25 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...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive so where the lines end or begin. Blank...

...this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so iimch boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the...the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive so where the lines end or begin. Blank...

...be thus lightly broken.' It is of course only a repetition of Johnson's well-known criticism, that' the variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers...of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer.' Johnson meant this sentence to be a reproach. As a matter of fact he sums up with admirable terseness...

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