...his own transcendant ideal. NOTES ON MILTON. 1807.1 (Hayley quotes the following passage : — ) " Time serves not now, and, perhaps, I might seem too...though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether thnt epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,...

...determine on the epic form of composition as the best for his genius. "That epick " form," he had said, "whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two " of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the llook of Job a irfV/' model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger...

...... to give ant certain account of what the mind at borne, in the spacious circuit of her musings, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest...those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and th? book of Job a brief model; ... or whether those Dramatic constitutions wherein Sophocles and Euripides...

...Nature, I might perhaps leave something written to after times as they should not willingly let it die. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing, has liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attaining — whether that epic...

...Nature, I might perhaps leave something written to after times as they should not willingly let it die. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing, has liberty to propose to herseif, though of highest hope and hardest attaining — whether that epic...

...strong evidence for the Miltonic authorship of Nova Solyma, some extracts become necessary here. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and...

...strong evidence for the Miltonic authorship of Nova Solyma, some extracts become necessary here. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and...

...sentences in the Reason of Church Government, which represent him as considering whether to attempt that "epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a model. ..or whether those dramatic constitutions, wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found...

...and not in the Latin or Anglo-Latin diction of the schools. In the same connection, there follows an account " of what the mind, at home in the spacious circuits of her musing," hath proposed to herself to accomplish, however difficult the undertaking may be. He wonders whether it...

...found of interest, even by those who regard the argument as delusive. He speaks of a projected task: ' Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too...propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and...