| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not no\y, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musingi hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting. Whether... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...without renewed and encreafcd delight. " mTime ferves not now, and, perhaps, I might feem too profufe to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the fpacious circuits of her mufmg, hatli liberty to propofe to herfelf, though of highell hope and hardeft... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...the/ prevailing' Tasso, was the bard whom he wished to emulate. " Time serves not now," says he, " and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...Homer, and those other two of Virgil, and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle are herein strictly... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...the tongue of his poetry, he was not yet decided with respect • Reasons of C. Govern. PW i. J20. to its subject or even to its form. " Time serves...attempting: whether that epic form, whereof the two pieces of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...mild energy, a solemn splendor of sentiment and expression peculiar to himself. " Time serves not now, and perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...epic form, whereof the two poems Of Homer, and those bther two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. ' Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...benefit and delight of posterity. The conceptions and language are equally fine. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, nod hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...same language in this prose treatise, and in the poem. He says, in the former, that he shall give no ' certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting;' and he opens the third book of Paradise Lost, with telling us, that he had been 'taught by the heavenly... | |
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