New-York tribune., 1868-08-27

bee or " bees" To these we Eviu now add tLe
word "calcined' which, when MI Mason W9'e
(Iuly 2i) was being read governed" but Mllth
was announced by 3ir biorlcy Sir. Bond asserting
To be cdciucd" IN bis letter PdDii'le9 July -
The point 10 which we wish 70 eau attchUOh IS Una!
although Milton once uses the compound word
90 arch -cheInic and "alchemist," ana alchemy
each once he never uscs, we behcye, either " cal
ciued" " or thyny.' This may be worth tmnkmgOn
Bnt leaving the question of the handwriting 20 he
settled as il may, let us examine the internal
evidence that the poem affords as to It's authorship
Perhaps at this stage of the investigation il will be
advisable 20 take the Poem ia its five divisions as
originally printed and give the gst OF all that has
been said about each, Tor and against The nrs' OF
these Is as follows:
He whom Heaven ala call away
Ont Of rlHs Hermitage Of clay,
Has left some reIiQuea IN tins urn
AS pledge Of hs return
These lines have been allowed TO pass uncha"need:
Only Mr. Dixon has called attention To thc beauty u
the word hermitage IN TINS cOnhectloh'
"MeanwhiIe the muses. DO dcpore
The loss Of this their paramour,
With whom he spOrted ere the 0dy
Budded forth It's tender ray,
And now Apollo leaves his lays
And puts on cypress for hrs bays;
Che slcred sisters tune their quius
Only 10 the bubhlng nils,
And while his doom they think upon
Leaving the two-topt Mount divine
TO turn yotarics to his shrine
The Earl of WinchiSea, who was the first 20 take
up the lance, or rather, for nothing can De iess
elegant or knightly than his style OF attack let US
4" the CLUB, AGAINST MT. Noilt9 anu INV P'D','
,,iqrrels with the rhymes from beginning 10 end,
lending OF with the words dep0Ic ana Nha,
mour7 lie signalized his entrance INTO the G1Lchi
arena by two eCrcgriOus biuudels, Tor he SAYS iht
Milton bad "a far too exquisite ear Tor rhyme, 10
make dcplOrc' rhyme 10 paramount, ana lar lo9
exquisite a sense of propuety, 10 use tue Woiu
"paramOur' at all But not only does Mliol' Ih me
lode on the Nativity make p3t3mour inS!!hTT J! 10 10
"her" far worse rhyme than the one III lIe le
Epitaph,' it is q notorious iact tnat rhymes equdiy
bad abound in his verse and the only reason why
we have not more tlau have rs, that he wrote So
comparatively. little rlymed verse. llo had, indeed
exquisite ear for rhythm but ne either hau .po an
ear for RHYMES or he was very careless about tneh
As is well known, he had no respect Tor rhyme
Speaking of it as ." no necessary Adjunct or true
Ornament of Poem or good Verse Dut
the Invention of barOaroCs A2e 10 seJ on
wretched matter and lame Meeter" ANA again,
g. a thing of itself, to all Judicious ears
triveal and of no true musical dehght; ,
the ingling sound of like endings lms point
may therefore be dismissed without further cOmnent
and as for the rhythm that Is at all evoats a. good
in this poem as lt IS ln the Allegro ana fynse-
rOsO" OF in the EpItaph on tho Countess OF win
chester The Ihyt thm Is perhaps as good rs can be
expected in the eight-sylable metre In which, win
some irregularities these earlier poems arc written;
Lord WinChilsea who seems 10 think that we are al
responsible to him for our opinions M tins matter,
gives up in very sury and inSolent note 10 Ihc
Times his objections 10 the rhymes. In truth with
the evidence that Milton did not rhyme wei that
was showered upon him from every quarter, he could
not maintain that first opinion OF his but he still
holds to his objection to the WoIa PuHn9uI
which he insists always means " an Illicit lover. IL
might be difficult 10 prove just what sort of love,
lawful or unlawful the old poets allude TO IN every
case where the word is employed, but, beside that
Mn Morley has asserted land the assertion of per
son who has shown himself so ill-informed as Lord
WinchilSea are hardly 10 be considered when they
contradict those of 50 thorough n scholar rs Mr..
Morleyl that the original sense Of the word was
kindred with the old French "pGraMg,p Ito love
greatly" students Of English viii hardly be inclined
10 admit that IL was always used IN BAD sense.
Chaucer and Spenser repeatedly employ 1t in way
that more naturally implies innocent love than the
opposite; and refuse to believe that when Romeo
viii lis deep, woIshipng love of Juliet says at her
grave