 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgment is no transgression, but an enriching of...Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice whether lie would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the Infidels, or Belisarius against... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgment is no transgression, but an enriching of...Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice whether lie would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the Infidels, or Belisarius against... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 466 pages
...Epic over against that of a drama or pastoral play drawn from Holy Writ: — "As Tasso gave to the prince of Italy his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infldels ... or Charlemagne against the Lombards, if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1899 - 476 pages
...against that of adnunt or pastoral play drawn from Holy Writ:— "As Tasso gave to the prince of Ilalj his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition againaI the infidels ... or Charlemagne against the Lombards, if to the instinct of nature and the... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Gott - Latin literature, Medieval and modern - 1902 - 442 pages
...the present work, will proceed to bring this first imperfect sketch into a more finished picture.1 choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's...the infidels, or Belisarius against the Goths, or Charlemain against the Lombards ; if ... there be nothing adverse in our climate, or the fate of this... | |
 | 1902 - 442 pages
...the present work, will proceed to bring this first imperfect sketch into a more finished picture.1 choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's...the infidels, or Belisarius against the Goths, or Charlemain against the Lombards ; if ... there be nothing adverse in our climate, or the fate of this... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression but an enriching of art: and lastly,...chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero. . . . After epic, he goes on to consider tragedy, wondering "whether those dramatic constitutions,... | |
 | Ian Jack - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 214 pages
...'Argument' was the choice of Sir Robert Howard. Cf. Milton's remark, in Reason of Church Government, that 'Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice whether...against the Goths, or Charlemagne against the Lombards': Milton on Himself, ed. John S. Diekhoff (edn of 1965), p. 9. 18 The Diary ofPepys, viii. 40. 19 Ibid.,... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what Kfing] or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...Christian basis. In The Reason of Church Government Milton will declare his epic interest in "what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian heroe" (YPW, 1:81314). But in Epitaphium Damonis, the disgruntled poet disdains any Christian connections.... | |
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... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil 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... 
