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" ... 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; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed; which in them that know art,... "
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 487
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-century ...

Margaret Lewis Bailey - English poetry - 1914 - 220 pages
...know of his plans for a national epic or poem from British legendary history. In 1641 1 he questions " what king or knight, before the conquest, might be...whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero " and suggests that the Scriptures also afford subjects, in the Song of Solomon and the Apocalypse of St....
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Studies in Philology, Volume 16

Electronic journals - 1919 - 398 pages
...herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art and use judgment is no transgression, but an enriching of art. And...whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero. And as Taaso gave to a prince of Italy his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art, and use judgment, enlaw . . . These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but...
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Antike, renaissance und puritanismus: eine studie zur englischen ...

Walter Franz Schirmer - English literature - 1924 - 254 pages
...gewichen: auch für diesen Plan, dass gemäss seiner Erwägung (Reas. of Church Gov. Book II) 'what hing or knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero' die nationale Sache des in zahlreichen Kämpfen sich Behauptenden und schliesslich vom fremden Unterdrücker...
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Antike, renaissance und puritanismus: eine studie zur englischen ...

Walter Franz Schirmer - English literature - 1924 - 252 pages
...diesen Plan, dass gemäss seiner Erwägung (Reas. of Church Gov. Book II) 'what hing or knight l1efere the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero' die nationale Sache des in zahlreichen Kämpfen sich Behauptenden und schliesslich vom fremden Unterdrücker...
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 2

John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...Model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or Nature to be follow'd, which in them that know Art, and use Judgement, is...the Pattern of a Christian Hero. And as Tasso gave xiv *v 3-= -W »35^ ^-V -V t:aups«.v rajtS, > . "4.-> 5: =r A^ .-.vs- y V •rjr j *!»c»'!--.V'^...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...to be follow'd, which in them that know art, and use judgement is no transgression, but an inriching of art. And lastly what King or Knight before the...be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as Tasso gave to a Prince of Italy his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfreys...
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Studies in Shakespeare, Milton and Donne

University of Michigan. Department of English - English literature - 1925 - 260 pages
...loftier enthusiasm than the desire to rival an Ovid or even a Spenser, and though he is still questioning "what king or knight before the conquest might be...in whom to lay the pattern " of a Christian hero, it is easy to see that such a theme will fail to satisfy his present more comprehensive purposes. From...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...Knight before the conquest might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian Heroe. And as lasso gave to a Prince of Italy his choice whether he would command him to write of Godfreys expedition against the infidels, or Belisarius against the Gothes, or Charlemain against the...
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A Milton Handbook

James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...enthusiasm than the desire to rival an Ovid or even a Spenser, -and though he is still questioning "what king or knight before the conquest might be...chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero," it is easy to see that such a theme will fail to satisfy his more comprehensive purposes. His passion...
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