...all-sufficiency of Blank Verse for " true musical delight," he says that such true musical delight " consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Now, in this sense, I think I can report with some certainty that the most frequent...

...III. BLANK VERSE. When Milton wrote in his preface to Paradise Lost of " true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another," he expressed an empirical truth about the harmony of blank verse, which it had taken...

...tragedies, as a thing of itself to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients...

...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both...

...tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings — a fault avoided by the learned ancients...

...authority that the heroic line contains three principal elements which he calls ' apt numbers,' a ' fit quantity of syllables ' and ' the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another.' The poet, therefore, as was his wont, set nothing above true harmony. He insisted on...

...Tragedies, as a thing of it self, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound 15 of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients...

...matter and lame metre — Rhyme to all judicious ears is trivial and of no true musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another; not in jingling sounds of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients." The...

...to be measured rather than accentual verse. Milton12 speaks of the musical delight in poetry which "consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Chas. Kingsley13 holds that English verse is not regulated by accent but by length of...

...to be measured rather than accentual verse. Milton12 speaks of the musical delight in poetry jvhich "consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another." Chas. Kingsley13 holds that English verse is not regulated by accent but by length of...