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Lect. XXlIl.
Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cosening judgment with a measure, But false weight.
Wresting words from their true calling, Propping verse for fear of falling To the ground ; Joining syllables, drowning letters, Fasting vowels, as with fetters They were bound.
He that first invented thee, May his joints tormented be, Cramp'd for ever !
Still may syllables jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime, Besting never," &o. &c.
Milton condemns rhyme as " the invention of a barb...arous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise and for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them a thing of itself to all judicious cares triveal and of no true musical delight ; " and he congratulates himself on having in ' Paradise Lost' set the first example in English epic of avoiding "the jingling sound of like endings," and thus restored " to Heroic Poem ancient liberty from the troublesome and modern bondage of rimeing." It can hardly bo said that Milton's experiment was a successful one, for the slowness with which his great poem won its way to public favour is doubtless in some measure to be ascribed to its rejection of what the English ear demanded as an essential con- stituent of the poetic form.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Lect. XXlIl.
Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cosening judgment with a measure, But false weight.
Wresting words from their true calling, Propping verse for fear of falling To the ground ; Joining syllables, drowning letters, Fasting vowels, as with fetters They were bound.
He that first invented thee, May his joints tormented be, Cramp'd for ever !
Still may syllables jarre with time, Still may reason warre with rime, Besting never," &o. &c.
Milton condemns rhyme as " the invention of a barb...arous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint, to express many things otherwise and for the most part worse than else they would have exprest them a thing of itself to all judicious cares triveal and of no true musical delight ; " and he congratulates himself on having in ' Paradise Lost' set the first example in English epic of avoiding "the jingling sound of like endings," and thus restored " to Heroic Poem ancient liberty from the troublesome and modern bondage of rimeing." It can hardly bo said that Milton's experiment was a successful one, for the slowness with which his great poem won its way to public favour is doubtless in some measure to be ascribed to its rejection of what the English ear demanded as an essential con- stituent of the poetic form.
What to read after The Student's Manual of the English Language: Lectures On the English Language;?
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