 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgment is no transgression but an enriching of art: and lastly...write of Godfrey's expedition against the Infidels, or Belisarius against the Goths, or Charlemain against the Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 pages
...are strictly to be " kept, or nature to be followed, which, in them that know art and " use judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art ; and,...write of Godfrey's expedition against the Infidels, or " Belisarius against the Goths, or Charlemain against the Lombards, " if to the instinct of nature... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1891 - 1150 pages
...not Hebrew or Christian legends. In the Reason for Church Government he tells us how he considered ' what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.' As Tasso had chosen an historical person for his hero, finally adopting Godfrey of Boulogne after some... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 848 pages
...Hebrew or Christian legends. In the "Reason for Church Government " he tells us how he considered •' what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero." As Tasso had chosen an historical person for his hero, finally adopting Godfrey of Boulogne after some... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 408 pages
...not Hebrew or Christian legends. In the Reason for Church Government he tells us how he considered 'what king or knight before the Conquest might be...chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.' As Tasso had chosen an historical person for his hero, finally adopting Godfrey of Boulogne, after... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hopes and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other...chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero. . . . After epic, he goes on to consider tragedy, wondering "whether those dramatic constitutions,... | |
 | Ian Jack - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 214 pages
...'Argument' was the choice of Sir Robert Howard. Cf. Milton's remark, in Reason of Church Government, that 'Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice whether...write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels, or Belisarius against the Goths, or Charlemagne against the Lombards': Milton on Himself, ed. John... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what Kfing] or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...Christian basis. In The Reason of Church Government Milton will declare his epic interest in "what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian heroe" (YPW, 1:81314). But in Epitaphium Damonis, the disgruntled poet disdains any Christian connections.... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what K. or Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his chois whether he would command him to write of Godfreys... | |
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Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,* which, in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression, but an enriching of art ; and lastly, what king or knight, before the... 
