...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer,...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in tht Song of Solomon, consisting of...

...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer,...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of...

...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...

...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...are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief, model." This also was one of the three subjects that Shelley meditated as the groundwork for lyrical dramas,...

...Milton had in his mind when he first mentioned the possibilities of a sacred poem in 1 64 1 : " the epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those...are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model." Modelling himself in Paradise Regained on the book of Job, Milton has with supreme judgment restricted...

...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, as in Paradise Lost he had adopted the larger or more diffuse of the two models...

...circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempt ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer,...Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model ; . . . the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of...

...Milton in 1641 enumerated amongst the different forms of poetical composition he proposed attempting, 'that epic form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and...Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, mode1.' (The Reason of Church Government.) 'I do not doubt,' remarks Coleridge, 'that Milton intended...

...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...

...liberty to 5 propose to her self, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other...of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Iob a brief, model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or 1° nature...