 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...self-dedication to the magnificent purpose of writing a great Epic in his mother tongue. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give...any certain account of what the mind at home in the spaaous circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 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 - 1870 - 352 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... | |
 | 1852 - 672 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...of highest hope and hardest attempting— whether the epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse,... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...magnificent passage, which Dr. Johnson regards as a pledge and prognostic of Paradise Lost : — " 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...dreams and compelled him to throw aside poetry for sterner work. " Time serves not " now," he says, " 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,... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...England hath had hej noble achievements made small by the unskilful haqdliug of monks and mechanics. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...give any certain account of what the mind at home. i;i i the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to v herself, though of highest... | |
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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... 
