| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...his own transcendent 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...such as those of Homer and of Virgil, and his own Paradise Lost. Milton's words in full are : — " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her Amusing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...there ought no regard be sooner had, than to God's glory, by tbe honor and instruction of my country. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, 1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1864 - 496 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...the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty io propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting. . . . And lastly, what king or... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...England h.ith had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself,1 though of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...that he long hesitated as to what subject he should choose :—" Time serves not now, and perhaps I 14 might seem too profuse, to give any certain account...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... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 588 pages
...had her noble atchievments made small by the unskilful) handling of monks and mecbanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give...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... | |
| Roger Ascham - Archery - 1868 - 372 pages
...his sen-dedication to ihe magnmccnt purpose oi writing a great Epic in his motner Minnie Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that E pick form whereof the two... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1863 - 206 pages
...had her noble atchievments made small by the unskilful! handling of monks and mccbanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epickform whereof the two poems... | |
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