 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...between the advocates of rhyme and blank verse for dramatic purposes. ' This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps...readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - American literature - 1902 - 494 pages
...Moreover, had not Milton said : " The neglect of rhime, so little is it to be taken for a defect, tho' it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example of ancient liberty, recovered from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhiming." This certainly was... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1908 - 538 pages
...trivial, and of no true musical delight," and that the neglect of rhyme was, therefore, " so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps...readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example set of ancient liberty recovered from troublesome and modern bondage." To whom thou untry'd seem'st fair.... | |
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This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern... 