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...celebrity as an author, even if he had never written a line of poetry. In one of them Milton alludes to " 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." Meanwhile, in reply to Garibaldi's advice to read the...

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...noble atchievments made small by the unskilful) handling of monks and mecbanicks. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain...circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting, whether that Epick form whereof the two poems...

...self-dedication to the magnificent purpose of writing a great Epic in his mother tongue. Time servs not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spaaous circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to her self, though of highest hope, and hardest...