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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 179
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuit of her musing, bath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope...two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book nf Job a. brief, model!' β€” P. 69. THESE latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt that...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the t\vo poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 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 epic furm whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, 1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model;β€”or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 3-5

1856 - 864 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." Hero he goes on to speak of the various modes of utterance in which the divine gift of poesy may express...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 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 bvok of Job a brief, model." β€” P. 69. THESE latler words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 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 ihe buok of Jub a brief, model" β€” P. 69. THESE latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether...are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which-in them that show art, and use judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art : or, lastly,...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her Amusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest...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 Paradise...
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A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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." Dunster accordingly thinks that we may suppose the model which Milton set before him in his Paradise...
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