 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...is too sublime and interesting to be read again and again without renewed and encreased delight " * Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...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,... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...to execute for the 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 account of what the mind at 544 1827.] 545 home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...and mechanics." He then considers " what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musings, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting- ; and lastly, what king or knight, before the Conquest, might be chosen to lay the pattern of a Christian... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...Hymns" of Pindar and Callimachus, to dwell upon " the throne and equipage of God's almightiness." " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circle of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...country, I, in my proportion, with this over and ahove, of heing a Christian, might do for mine. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liherty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too refuse, an brim, Shot parallel to th' earth his dewy ray,...Discovering in wide landscape all the east Of 1'aradise ;»i'l hardest attempting. Whether that epic form, «titn-of the two poems of Homer, and those other... | |
 | 1847 - 910 pages
...history, a dim, brooding, prophetic rehearsal of the Paradise Lost. " Time serves not now," says he, " and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardiest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and these other two of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. y s Taseo are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...Man. We say fortunately, for we know that he long hesitated as to what subject he should choose: — "Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting. . . . And lastly, what king or knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 388 pages
...his own transcendant ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuit of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting... | |
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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... 
