 | Sir Charles Rhoderick McGrigor (bart.) - 1866 - 366 pages
...celebrity as an author, even if he had never written a line of poetry. In one of them Milton alludes to " that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model." Meanwhile, in reply to Garibaldi's advice to read the " Gierusalemme Liberata," I told him I preferred... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 206 pages
...noble atchievments made small by the unskilful! handling of monks and mccbanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epickform whereof the two poems... | |
 | John Milton - 1869 - 588 pages
...noble atchievments made small by the unskilful) handling of monks and mecbanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1868 - 372 pages
...sen-dedication to ihe magnmccnt purpose oi writing a great Epic in his motner Minnie Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that E pick form whereof the two... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 196 pages
...liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of lob a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, 01 nature to be... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...self-dedication to the magnificent purpose of writing a great Epic in his mother tongue. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spaaous circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...of highest hope and hardest attempting— whether the epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse,... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful haqdliug of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home. i;i i the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to v herself, though of highest... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...this we learn from the sequel of the passage already quoted. " Time serves not now," he there says, " and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...propose to herself, though of highest " hope and hardest attempting—whether that Epic form whereof " the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 pages
...determine on the epic form of composition as the best for his genius. "That epick form," he had said, "whereof the two poems of Homer, and " those other...Tasso are a diffuse, and the " Book of Job a brief mod el." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of... | |
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Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic... 
