| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 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...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... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 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...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I iniirht seem too profuse to give any certain account of what...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...achievements made small by the unskillful handling of monks and mechanies. Time serves not now, and perhaps ,1 might seem too profuse, to give any certain account...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuit of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 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...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...Homer and of Virgil, and his own Paradise Lost. Milton's words in full are : — " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse, to give any...the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her Amusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...Homer and of Virgil, and his own Paradise Lost. Milton's words in full are : — " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse, to give any...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tas-so, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model." Dunster accordingly thinks that we may suppose the model... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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... | |
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