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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... "
Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings - Page 468
by John Black - 1810
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 22

1880 - 870 pages
...special fondness among the Biblical 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...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 102

1880 - 868 pages
...special fondness among the Biblical 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...
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 402 pages
...special fondness among the Biblical 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 » diffuse (model)," audio the judgment of S. T, Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job was Miltoil's...
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Choice Literature, Volume 4

Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...special fondness among the Biblical 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 aud Tasso, are a diffuse (model)," audio the judgment of S. T, Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job...
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Selected Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1884 - 326 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...what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of hermusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether...
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Selected prose writings, with an intr. essay by E. Myers

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 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 account of what the mind at home, in the spaciouscircuits of hermusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Notes and lectures upon ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1884 - 516 pages
...account of what tliu uiiiul ¡it home, in the apncioue circuit of her musing, hath lil>erty to propiso to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two pueins of Homer, mid those other two of Virgil aud Tiuuo, are a dilfuse, and the bixik nf Jub a brief,...
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Milton and Vondel: A Curiosity of Literature

George Edmundson - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 238 pages
...interest bearing upon the engrossing subject of his thoughts. " Time serves not now," he wrote in 1641, " and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attaining— ^whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil...
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Paradise Lost: Books XI and XII

John Milton - Bible - 1892 - 198 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...
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Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1893 - 666 pages
...ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.1 (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any...though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether thnt epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,...
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