 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...Milton in 1641 enumerated amongst the different forms of poetical composition he proposed attempting, 'that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, 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
...sentences in the Reason of Church 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... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...her noble . atchievments made small by the unskilfull handling of monks and mechanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to...the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to 5 propose to her self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting : whether that Epick form whereof... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1922 - 330 pages
...a passage which Milton himself makes apology for having condensed. "Time serves not now," he says, "and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...the mind, at home in the spacious circuits of her musings, hath liberty to propose to herself through highest hope and hardest attempting; whether the... | |
 | John Milton - 1924 - 472 pages
...refusing to it the title of epic altogether. In his Reason of Church Government, Milton speaks of " that Epic form, whereof the two Poems of Homer and...those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, aud the Book of Job a brief, model," and it has been suggested that in Paradise Regained he essayed... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - 1924 - 254 pages
...the kinds ofLyrick poesy to be incomparable (ibid.). Die Bibel bietet Beispiele der Epik : that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Vergil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of lob a bricf, model: or whether the rules of Aristotle... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...Achievements made small by the unskilful handling of Monks and Mechanicks. ' 'Timeserves not now.and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...highest hope and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two Poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. Areopagitica 155 ' Long Choosing ' I TIME serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...schisms. Areopagitica 155 ' Long (Choosing ' I '"T'lME serves not now, and perhaps I might seem JL too profuse to give any certain account of what the...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems... | |
 | Adriaan Jacob Barnouw - 1925 - 252 pages
...epic before he knew whom he would sing, and he shared Milton's desire to give account to his friends of "what the mind, at home in the spacious circuits...of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself." He thought of Reael, but his very friendship for the .man which prompted the choice made the project... | |
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Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too 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... 
