 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 484 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,*... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 748 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made email by the unskilful bundling of monks and mechanics. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic furm whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the... | |
 | 1856
...ought no regard to be sooner had, than to God's glory, by the honour and instruction of my country " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting." Hero he goes on to speak of the various modes of utterance in which the divine gift of poesy may express... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 776 pages
...England h.ith had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...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 of Homer,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanies. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...account of what the mind at home, in the spacious cireuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting.... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1848 - 776 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
...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...and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858
...might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuit of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,...other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the bvok of Job a brief, model." — P. 69. THESE latler words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt... | |
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