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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be ftfllowed, which, in them that know art and use judgment, is no trangression, but an enriching of art...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 4

John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...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 epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and...
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived ..., Volume 6

Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...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 epick form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...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 of highest...poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasao are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are...
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Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The fall of Robespierre ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 446 pages
...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...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 Paradise...
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liherty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and...other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the hook of Joh a hrief model ; and whether the rules of Aristotle are herein strictly to he kept, or nature...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ;...tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my »re strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which ш them that know art, and use judgment,...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 3-4

1847 - 910 pages
...spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardiest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and these other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job, a brief model : or whether...
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 390 pages
...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, though of highest...other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the buok oj' Job a brief, model." p. 69. These latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt that...
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