 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 sider
...up in fewer words : but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive...a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made; that rhyme... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 sider
...up in fewer words : but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive...a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made; that rhyme... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 sider
...up in fewer words ; but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive...rhyme ; the fancy then .gives leisure to the judgment t6 come in, which, seeing so heavy a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 sider
...interposed, when the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive that sense in such words that the rhyme shall naturally follow them,...they the rhyme; the fancy then gives leisure to the judgement to come in, which, seeing so heavy a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expenses.... | |
 | 1821 - 408 sider
...when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to the couplet, and must contrive that sense into such words,...a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made ; that rhyme... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 sider
...when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to the couplet, and must contrive that sense into such words,...a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made ; that rhyme... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sider
...up in fewer words : but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive...a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expences. This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made ; that rhyme... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 sider
...interposed, when the poet commonly confines his sense to his couplet, and must contrive that sense in such words that the rhyme shall naturally follow them,...they the rhyme ; the fancy then gives leisure to the judgement to come in, which, seeing so heavy a tax imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expenses.... | |
 | 1845 - 816 sider
...interposed; where the poet commonly confines his verse to his couplet, and must continue that verse in such words that the rhyme shall naturally follow them,...the judgment to come in ; which, seeing so heavy a task imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expenses. And this furnishes a complete answer, he... | |
 | 1845 - 842 sider
...interposed; where the poet commonly confines his verse to his couplet, and must continue that verse in such words that the rhyme shall naturally follow them,...the judgment to come in ; which, seeing so heavy a task imposed, is ready to cut off all unnecessary expenses. And this furnishes a complete answer, he... | |
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The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant; he is tempted to say many things, which might better be omitted, or at least shut up in fewer words; but when the difficulty of artful rhyming is interposed, where the poet commonly confines... 
