 | John Milton - Poets, English - 1872 - 250 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 - Poets, English - 1872 - 234 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,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...could unite to the adorning of my native tongue," and the kinds of poetry he contemplated writing: Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1969 - 1278 pages
...character 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 T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...decision, are designed to prepare Milton for the "fresh Woods, and Pastures new," for those things which "the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting" (Reason, 38). Once we consider that Milton's... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...Milton's time. His poetic ambitions are related to the reader in terms of self-described circuitousness: "Perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting" (YM 1, 81:1-13). Again and again, what we... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...had her noble atchievments made small by the unskilfull handling of monks and mechanicks. 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...'elegant and learned reader' the potentialities and best examples of each, beginning with the epic. '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... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 320 pages
...models -classical, biblical, or contemporary - within each category: Time servs not now, and perbaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account...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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...England hath her nohle achievements made small hy the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics, Times serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse...home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liherty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest atrempting: whether that epic form... | |
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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... 
