| 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...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,... | |
| 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...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...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... | |
| Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...and mechanics." He then considers " what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musings, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting- ; and lastly, what king or knight, before the Conquest, might be chosen to lay the pattern of a Christian... | |
| Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...imposed me by them that had the overlooking, or Retaken to of mine own choice in English, or other " 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 350 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...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 - 1835 - 1044 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...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 - Literature - 1836 - 446 pages
...his own transcendant ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." p. 69. These latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt that Milton intended his... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. 10. 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,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...Hymns" of Pindar and Callimachus, to dwell upon " the throne and equipage of God's almightiness." " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circle of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting... | |
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