| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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...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
...his own transcendent ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...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
...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...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
...such as those of 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...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... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...such as those of 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...Tas-so, 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...such as those of 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...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model." l)unster; accordingly thinks that wo may suppose the model which Milton set before him in his... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...there ought no regard be sooner had, than to God's glory, by tbe honor and instruction of my country. 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,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1864 - 496 pages
...Man. We say fortunately, for we know that he long hesitated as to what subject he should choose: — "Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty io propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting. . . . And lastly, what king or... | |
| |