 | Ewald Pommrich - Comparative literature - 1902 - 92 pages
...sich für die dramatische Gestaltung entscheiden soll oder für die epische „whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model." Auch hier trägt er sich mit der Hoffnung, ein englischer Tasso zu werden; denn ,. äs Tasso gave to... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Gott - Latin literature, Medieval and modern - 1902 - 396 pages
...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in tht Song of Solomon, consisting of... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 398 pages
...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 180 pages
...Government, which represent him as considering whether to attempt that "epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a model. ..or whether those dramatic constitutions, wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found... | |
 | Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - Bible - 1903 - 330 pages
...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso,...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." This also was one of the three subjects that Shelley meditated as the groundwork for lyrical dramas,... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...first mentioned the possibilities of a sacred poem in 1 64 1 : " the epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso,...are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model." Modelling himself in Paradise Regained on the book of Job, Milton has with supreme judgment restricted... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 446 pages
...form of composition as the best for his genius. "That epick form," he had said, "whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso,...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." May we not say that, as in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two models... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1904 - 542 pages
...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...different forms of poetical composition he proposed attempting, 'that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, mode1.' (The Reason of Church Government.) 'I do not doubt,' remarks Coleridge, 'that Milton intended... | |
 | John Milton - 1907 - 276 pages
...Government, which represent him as considering whether to attempt that "epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a model.. .or whether those dramatic constitutions, wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found... | |
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... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model... 
