...the ancient marked the quantity of each syllable, and according to that framed his verse ; the modern observing only number, with some regard of the accent,...many speeches ; the ancient, no doubt, more fit for music, both words and time observing quantity ; and more fit lively to express divers passions, by...

...older authority is Sir Philip Sidney, who, in his Defence of Poesy, says of modern versifying, — " the chief life of it standeth in that like sounding of the words, which we call rhyme." The absence of rhyme is then inexcusable in the regular English Ode ; and a barbarous rhyme, to an...

...syllable, and, according to that, framed his verse ; the modern observing only number, with some regard to the accent, the chief life of it standeth in that like sounding of the words which we call rhyme."* Even in dramatic composition the use of blank verse appears to have been for some time confined to...

...ancient marked the quantity of each syllable, and according to that framed his verse ; the modern, observing only number, with some regard of the accent,...many speeches ; the ancient, no doubt, more fit for music, both words and time observing quantity ; and more fit lively to express divers passions, by...

...ancient marked the quantitie of each syllable, and according to that framed his verse : the moderne observing only number, with some regard of the accent,...in that like sounding of the words, which we call ryme. Whether of these be the more excellent, would beare many speeches, the ancient, no doubt, more...

...syllable, and, according to that, framed his verse; the modern observing only number, with some regard to the accent, the chief life of it standeth in that like sounding of the words which we call rhyme." f Even in dramatic composition the use of blank verse appears to have been for some time confined to...

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...the ancient marked the quantity of each syllable, and according to that framed his verse ; the modern observing only number, with some regard of the accent, the chief life of it standeth in that like Bounding of the words which we call rhyme." " Truly," he afterwards adds, " the English, before any...

...ancient marked the quantitie of each syllable, and according to that framed his verse : the moderne observing only number, with some regard of the accent,...in that like sounding of the words, which we call ryme. Whether of these be the more excellent, would beare many speeches, the ancient, no doubt, more...

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