Tetrachordon

Milton's book, entitled Tetrachordon, had been ridiculed, it would seem, by the divines assembled at Westminster, and others, on account of the hardness of the title; and Milton in his sonnet retaliates upon the barbarous

A Legend of Montrose 1871

"A Book was writ of late called Tetrachordon;" and, as characteristic of his rhythm and metre, cite his literal translation of the first and second Psalm!

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Finally, as though the very spirit of parody danced in the company of this strange poem, Wordsworth himself chronicled its ill-fate in a sonnet imitated from Milton's defence of "Tetrachordon," singing how, on the appearance of _Peter Bell_,

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

"Tetrachordon": I grant that his refinement, though bringing him something which Milton did not have, has cost him something else which

A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

Milton's "Tetrachordon" was not better abused; but Milton's assailants were unorganized, and were obliged each to print and pay for his own dingy little quarto, trusting to the natural laws of demand and supply to furnish him with readers.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; _ in his _Tetrachordon, or the four chief places in Scripture, which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

After his bantering me, as of old he had done, on the use of long and crabbed words, I hinted that he was in honour bound to agree at least with my disparaging judgment upon _Tetrachordon_, if only because of the use of words that would "have made Quintillian stare."

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

I think the one on _Tetrachordon_ a very vigorous affair indeed.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

In Milton's case the subjects, I imagine, were to blame for his indifference to his achievements in prose, for not even the Westminster Convention, or the divorce topics of _Tetrachordon_, or yet the liberty of the press, albeit raised to a level of philosophic first principles, were quite up to those fixed stars of sublimity about which it was Milton's pleasure to revolve.

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in Scripture which treat of mariage, or nullities in manage, wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd.

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890