 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...history's sire, Thus paints with eloquence the Homeric lyre." ยป3 Reasons of C. Govern. PW i. 120. "Time serves not," (he says) " and perhaps I might...attempting: whether that epic form, whereof the two pieces of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Reason of Church- Government he thus delivers his sentiments. ' Time serves not now, and per' haps I might seem too profuse ' to give any certain account...spacious circuits of her ' musing, hath liberty to pro' pose to herself, though of high' est hope, and hardest attempt' ing; whether that epic form '... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...and confident thoughts," was to be one " of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether (says he) that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 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...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...interesting to be read again and again without renewed and encreased delight " * Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epick form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...interesting to be read again and again without renewed and enereased delight. " x Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epick form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting ; whether that epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 pages
...hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epiqk form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...benefit and delight of posterity. The conceptions and language are equally fine. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at 544 1827.] 545 home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though... | |
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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... 
