 | John Milton - 1882 - 438 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 two...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." May we not say that, as in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two models... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1883 - 544 pages
...transcendant ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807. 1 (Hayley quotes the following passage :—) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." (p. 69.) These latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt that Milton intended his " Paradise... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 326 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 certain...what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of hermusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 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 certain account of what the mind at home, in the spaciouscircuits of hermusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 516 pages
...account of what tliu uiiiul ¡it home, in the apncioue circuit of her musing, hath lil>erty to propiso to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two pueins of Homer, mid those other two of Virgil aud Tiuuo, are a dilfuse, and the bixik nf Jub a brief,... | |
 | George Edmundson - 1885 - 238 pages
...interest bearing upon the engrossing subject of his thoughts. " Time serves not now," he wrote in 1641, " and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attaining— ^whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 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...a diffuse, and " the Book of Job a brief, model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 654 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 two...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 198 pages
...sentences in the Reason of Church Government, which represent him as considering whether to attempt that " epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a model... or whether those dramatic constitutions, wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 666 pages
...ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.1 (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether thnt epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
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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... 
