| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 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...epic form, whereof the two poems Of Homer, and those bther two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 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,... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...to execute for the benefit and delight of posterity. The conceptions and language are equally fine. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, nod hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...same language in this prose treatise, and in the poem. He says, in the former, that he shall give no ' certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting;' and he opens the third book of Paradise Lost, with telling us, that he had been 'taught by the heavenly... | |
| 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...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 - 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 '... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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 - 1826 - 368 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 ftfllowed,... | |
| Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...is too sublime and interesting to be read again and again without renewed and enereased delight. " x Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...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 - 484 pages
...is too sublime and interesting to be read again and again without renewed and encreased delight " * Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...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,... | |
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