 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1897 - 592 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...are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model." Dunster accordingly thinks that we may suppose the model which Milton set before him in his Paradise... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 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 " of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the llook of Job a irfV/' model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 476 pages
...... to give ant certain account of what the mind at borne, in the spacious circuit of her musings, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest...those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and th? book of Job a brief model; ... or whether those Dramatic constitutions wherein Sophocles and Euripides... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...editors. ii In The Reason ofChurch-governement of 1642 occurs Milton's statement about 'that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model '.20 It has been said that the Hebrews produced no epic poetry, but Charles Jones and Barbara Lewalski21... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...adorning of my native tongue," and the kinds of poetry he contemplated writing: Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hopes and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...even as Charles Dunster had in 1795, that Milton's rather puzzling reference in RCG to "that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model" is a serious statement of generic theory with direct applicability to PR. Investigation of the poem... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...decision, are designed to prepare Milton for the "fresh Woods, and Pastures new," for those things which "the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting" (Reason, 38). Once we consider that Milton's... | |
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...as Barrow does in his dedicatory verses, In The Reason of Church Governmenl he speaks of "that Hpick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and 'lasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model" lWolfe. i:8i3). The note on "The Verse" ladded... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...Milton's time. His poetic ambitions are related to the reader in terms of self-described circuitousness: "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" (YM 1, 81:1-13). Again and again, what we... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...noble atchievments made small by the unskilfull handling of monks and mechanicks. 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... | |
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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... 
