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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived Principally ... - Page 52
by Henry John Todd - 1826 - 370 pages
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Outlines of English Literature

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...
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 2

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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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 390 pages
...NOTES ON MILTON. . 1807.* (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, aud, perhaps, I might seem too profuse to give any certain...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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Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ...

John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the rnind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself , though...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskillful handling of monks and mechanies. 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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskillful handling of monks and mechanies. 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...
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...England hath had her noble aehievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and meehanies. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any eertain aeeount of what the mind at home, in the spaeious eireuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose...
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The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...unfkilfull handling of monks and mechanicks. Time fervs 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 mufing hath liberty to propofe to her felf, though of higheft hope, and hardeft...
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The North British review

1852 - 634 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 profuse, to give any certain account of what the miiul at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of...
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