 | 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
...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 profuse to give any certain...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, naging of his religious affairs ; some diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. 10. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." p. 69. These latter words deserve particular notice.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...Callimachus, to dwell upon " the throne and equipage of God's almightiness." " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...ho might go on trust with him towards the payment of what he was then indebted ;" namely, a work " of highest hope and hardest attempting — whether...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...proportion, with this over and ahove, of heing a Christian, might do for mine. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liherty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too refuse, an brim, Shot parallel to th' earth his dewy ray,...Discovering in wide landscape all the east Of 1'aradise ;»i'l hardest attempting. Whether that epic form, «titn-of the two poems of Homer, and those other... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...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... | |
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Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic... 
