 | Lane Cooper - 1923 - 184 pages
...in the Poetics until he went to Italy (1638-9). In The Reason of Church-Government (1641) he thinks 'that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens,...and above of being a Christian, might do for mine.' Proposing to himself an epic poem modeled after Homer, Virgil, Tasso, and Job, Milton considers 'whether... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...his countrymen— the invariant essence of enduring reputation: "That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine" (CP I, 812). But as we know from the poems themselves, Milton also searched monumental... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those 20 Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above being a Christian, might doe for mine: not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...his country: "I apply'd my selfe to that resolution . . . [so] That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...did for their country, I in my proportion with this ever and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine" (Reason, 38). To this end, he began the study... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...mine own Citizens throughout this Iland in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine: not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content... | |
 | Noam Flinker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 190 pages
...like Milton in Reason of Church-Government, he must have hoped: 'That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine' (Complete Prose 1:812). As a very minor poet who aspired to the Spenserian epic mantle,... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...which should he supported hy the reforming party. Text from: first edition. 1641, hook 2, preface. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome or modern Italy, and those Hehrews of old did for their country, I. in my proportion, with this over and ahove, of heing a Christian,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens,...being a Christian, might do for mine; not caring to bs once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British islands... | |
 | Richard H. Lansing - Poets, Italian - 2003 - 432 pages
...among mine own Citizens throughout this Hand in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...of old did for their country, I, in my proportion . . . might doe for mine; not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that,... | |
 | Andrew Escobedo - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 284 pages
...among mine own Citizens throughout this Hand in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine: not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content... | |
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Vanity, but to be an Interpreter and Relater of the best and sagest things, among mine own Citizens throughout this Island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest Wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did... 
