 ... was Milton's favourite, appears not only from his elegiac but his hexametric poetry. The versification of our author's hexameters has yet a different structure from that of the Metamorphoses: Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing; less...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 3411788Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1788
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; lefs defultory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarrafled with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...length of fentence, are peculiar to Milton. This is fecn, not only in <ome of his exordial invocations in the PARADISE LOST, and in many of the religious... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 620 pages
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing; lefs defultory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarrafjed with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...telling a ftory. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of lentence, are peculiar to Milton. This is feen, not only in fome of his exordial invocations in the... | |
 | 1786
...more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; Icfs defultory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarraflcd with я frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at once rapid...telling a ftory . Prolixity of paragraph, and length of fentencc, arc peculiar to Milton. This is feen, not only in fome of his exordial invocations in the... | |
 | 1786
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; lefs defultory, lets f.imiliar, and lefs cmbarralied with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...rapid and abrupt. He wants dignity : he has too much converlation in his manner of telling a ftory. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of fentence, are... | |
 | 1788
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; lefs defultory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarrafled with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...length of fentence, are peculiar to Milton. This is fecn, not only in <ome of his exordial invocations in the PARADISE LOST, and in many of the religious... | |
 | 1788
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; lefs defuhory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarralled with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...has too much converfation in his manner of telling a (lory. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of fentence, are peculiar to Milton. This is feen, not only... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; lefs defultory, lefs familiar, and lefs embarraffed with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...rapid and abrupt. He wants dignity : he has too much converfalion in his manner of telling a ftory. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of lenience, are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; less desultory, less familiar, and less embarrassed with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...rapid and abrupt. He wants dignity : he has too much conversation in his manner of telling a story. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of sentence, are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; less desul-' tory, less familiar, and less embarrassed with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at once rapid and abrupt. He wants dignity : he ha« too much conversation in his manner of telling a story. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...Milton's is more clear, intelligible, and flowing ; less desultory, less familiar, and less embarrassed with a frequent recurrence of periods. Ovid is at...rapid and abrupt. He wants dignity : he has too much conversation in his manner of telling a story. Prolixity of paragraph, and length of sentence, are... | |
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