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Working within your stated constraints and desires, and if it were me, I'd play around with the 751 in the attic to see what can be gotten in there, and if it's promising, go with a high-gain all-channel in the attic. It'll be a monster, but that's just how it is.
I intentionally went with much more antenna, mounted in my attic, than I would have needed if mounted outdoors, and everything comes in 99-100% all the time, even with a load of snow on the roof. Outdoors, I could have used cheap rabbit ears with UHF loop to do the same thing, which I actually tried (at ground level) just to see how it worked.
The point of trying what you have up there is that there may be construction details that make if difficult or impossible to get a good signal. My neighbor has the model home for this street, and his house has aluminium foil insulation under the siding that prevents signals from getting through, so he had to be careful to aim his attic antennas through the roofing, which works just fine (as does mine). My house has no such wrapping, though. Better to find out what's possible before spending more on a monster antenna.
Attics are a crummy place for an antenna, but if that's what you want to do, at least play around with what you have first. Run a clean cable through the scuttle or stairway straight to a TV with signal strength meter when you experiment. Or put the TV up there with you.
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