 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not nowj and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...highest hope, and hardest attempting. Whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics. Time serves not no\y, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any...the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musingi hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting. Whether... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 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...highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...without renewed and encreafcd delight. " mTime ferves not now, and, perhaps, I might feem too profufe to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the fpacious circuits of her mufmg, hatli liberty to propofe to herfelf, though of highell hope and hardeft... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...of Milton, with a mild energy, a solemn splendor of sentiment and expression peculiar to himself. " Time serves not now, and perhaps, I might seem too...highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...the/ prevailing' Tasso, was the bard whom he wished to emulate. " Time serves not now," says he, " and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...highest hope, and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil, and Tasso, are a diffuse,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...Reasons of C. Govern. P. \V. i. 120. to its subject or even to its form. " Time serves not," (he says,) " and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that epic form, whereof the two pieces of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 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...highest hope and hardest attempting. Whether that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and... | |
 | 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...liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, nod hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...same language in this prose treatise, and in the poem. He says, in the former, that he shall give no ' certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious...herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting;' and he opens the third book of Paradise Lost, with telling us, that he had been 'taught by the heavenly... | |
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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... 
