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" ... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero. "
The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ... - Page 104
by William Hayley - 1810
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Folia Litteraria: Essays and Notes on English Literature

John Wesley Hales - 1893 - 408 pages
...not Hebrew or Christian legends. In the Reason for Church Government he tells us how he considered 'what king or knight before the Conquest might be...chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.' As Tasso had chosen an historical person for his hero, finally adopting Godfrey of Boulogne, after...
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Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II

John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know...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...
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Paradise Lost, Books 1-2

John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know...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...
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Poems

Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron Latymer, Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - 1896 - 134 pages
...and the book of Job a brief model ! or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know...judgment is no transgression but an enriching of art." The Reason of Church Government. — Milton. ocrrt? Trapaivetv vovderelv re rov KaKa><? ' e<y<a Se...
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A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen ...

Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...himself whether in the writing of an epic poem " the rules of Aristotle herein are to be strictly kept : still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience...though few." 8. John Milton (ch. viii. § 30, 51 — 55 But still, and for years yet to come, Milton felt that the work to which his soul yearned forward was...
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Studies of a Booklover

Thomas Marc Parrott - 1904 - 330 pages
...still much that remained to be decided, the choice of a subject, for example, "what king or knight might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero." And there was the question of the form which the poem should take, " whether that epic whereof the two...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century: 1650-1685

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 388 pages
...be follow'd, which, in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression, but an inriching of art: And, lastly, what K(ing) or Knight before...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his chois 15 whether he would command him to write of...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...be follow'd, which, in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression, but an inriching of art: And, lastly, what K(ing) or Knight before...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his chois 15 whether he would command him to write of...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...: vol.II, 1650-1685; vol.III ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...be follow'd, which, in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression, but an inriching of art: And, lastly, what K(ing) or Knight before...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his chois 15 whether he would command him to write of...
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Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-century ...

Margaret Lewis Bailey - 1914 - 228 pages
...know of his plans for a national epic or poem from British legendary history. In 1641 1 he questions " what king or knight, before the conquest, might be...whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero " and suggests that the Scriptures also afford subjects, in the Song of Solomon and the Apocalypse of St....
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