 ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...  The Monthly magazine - Sida 598efter Monthly literary register - 1839Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 206 sidor
...liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epickform whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two...of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of lob a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1869 - 588 sidor
...of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems oí Horn er, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of lob a brief model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 sidor
...of highest hope and hardest attempti;ii; . whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Honker, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse,...are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, whirh in them that know art, and use judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art : and lastly,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 sidor
...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...Tasso are a diffuse, and the " Book of Job a brief mod el." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 sidor
...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...Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job z.brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 560 sidor
...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...strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which iu them that know art, and use judgment, is no transgression, but an enriching of art : and lastly,... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 sidor
...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 form whereof the two poems of Iloiner, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model:... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 sidor
...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse or complex model,... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 sidor
...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...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model." May we not say that, whereas in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 878 sidor
...literary plans and dreamings, Milton had recognised, as among the forms of poetry open to him, "that epick form whereof the two poems of " Homer, and those other...Virgil and Tasso, are a "diffuse, and the Book of Job a ltrief, model." As his Paradise Lost had been a Miltonic specimen of the epic after the more diffuse... | |
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