 | 302 pages
...Church Government (1641), questions "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" [book 2, preface], quoted by Allan H. Gilbert, "Is Samson Agonistes Unßnished?" Philological Quarterly,... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1999 - 291 pages
...now certainly determined upon the glorification of a British subject, and was only irresolute still "what king or knight, before the conquest, might be...chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero." In his defence of himself in An Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), he recounts with selfapprobation the... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle0 herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know...pattern of a Christian hero. And as Tasso gave to a prince0 of Italy his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...to 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 the...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Héroe. (CPW 1.812-14) For his epic Milton has an obliging Muse who "inspires / Easie my unpremeditated... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - 2006 - 238 pages
...situation to Tasso's, when the Italian poet offered to his patron the choice of the subject of his poem: And lastly what King or Knight before the conquest...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys... | |
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... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero. 
