 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...determine on the epic form of composition as the best for his genius. " That epick form," he had said, " whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two...Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job z.brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 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...attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Iloiner, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model:... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse or complex model,... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...determine on the epic form of composition as the best for his genius. " That epick " form," he had said, "whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 878 pages
...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...Virgil and Tasso, are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a ltrief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1614 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ยป diffuse (model)," audio the judgment of S. T, Coleridge, the poetic dialogue of Job was Miltoil's... | |
 | 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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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... 
