 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...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, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 878 pages
...Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a ltrief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other {wo of Viigil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the hook of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly lo be kept, or nature to be followed. which in Hum that know art, find use judgment, is no tr.'insgRssion,... | |
 | 1880 - 870 pages
...writings for the Book of Job, which he calls ' a brief model ' of ' that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse (model),' and in the judgment of ST Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job was Milton's pattern for... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1614 pages
...writings for the Book of Job, which he calls ' a brief model of ' that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse (model),' and in the judgment of ST Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job was Milton's pattern for... | |
 | 1880 - 868 pages
...writings for the Book of Job, which he calls ' a brief model ' of ' that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse (model),' and in the judgment of ST Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job was Milton's pattern for... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1883 - 544 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." (p. 69.) These latter words deserve particular notice. I do not doubt that Milton intended his " Paradise... | |
 | George Edmundson - 1885 - 242 pages
...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attaining — whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso...and the Book of Job a brief model, .... or whether those dramatic constitutions wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign." 1 We know also on the authority... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 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,...a diffuse, and " the Book of Job a brief, model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
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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... 
