...knights At joust and tournament; then marshalled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneshals : The skill of artifice or office mean ; Not that which justly gives heroic name To person or to poem ! Me, of these Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That...

...speaking at the outset of his eighth book (1667), as he scorns the military trappings of earlier epics: The skill of Artifice or Office mean, Not that which justly gives Heroic name To Person or to Poem. Mee of these Nor skilld nor studious, higher Argument Remaines, sufficient of it self to raise That...

...mockingly charged, been to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabled knights In battles feigned. . . . The skill of artifice or office mean, Not that which justly gives heroic name To person or to poem. (9.29-41 ) And here too he had his own substitute, though in this case one equally neglected by the...

...knights At joust and tournament, then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschals — The skill of artifice or office mean, Not that which justly gives heroic name To person or to poem. Me of these Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains . . . [1x. 34-43] His own experiences...

...Knights At Joust and Tournament; then marshall'd Feast Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneschals; The skill of Artifice or Office mean, Not that which justly gives Heroic name To Person or to Poem. Mee of these Nor skill 'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains. (9.25-43) In this passage Milton does...

...Knights At Joust and Tournament; then marshall'd Feast Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneschals; The skill of Artifice or Office mean, Not that which justly gives Heroic name 40 To Person or to Poem. Mee of these Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient...

...knights0 At joust and tournament; then marshalled feast Served up in hall with sewers, and seneschals;0 The skill of artifice or office mean, Not that which justly gives heroic name 40 To person or to poem. Me of these Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient...

...Knights At Joust and Tournament; then marshall'd Feast Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers and Seneschals; The skill of Artifice or Office mean, Not that which justly gives Heroic name To Person or to Poem. Mee of these Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That...

...Knights At Joust and Torneament; the marshal'd Feast Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneschals; The skill of Artifice or Office mean, Not that which justly gives Heroic name To Person or to Poem. (9.25-41) In these lines, Milton declares that he is trying something new, that he is writing an epic,...

...Ariostan or Spenserian romance;19 but in the present passage he dismisses the whole glamorous business as 'Not that which justly gives heroic name / To person or to poem' (11. 40—1). Inspired by a heavenly muse, Paradise Lost has a subject 'Not less but more heroic',...