 I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...  Western Reserve Studies - Page 29de Western Reserve University - 1924Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...of his own parts.' Besolved to be a poet, his firm opinion was, that ' he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.' Resolved to be a poet, we say, for al though, when first sent to Cambridge, it had been... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...darkness, in all their forms. He had started with the conviction " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well . hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; " and from this... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...the " wild oats" apologists — the poet's " fixed idea" being, that whoso " would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a • true poem" — that he who would not be frustrate of being great, or doing good hereafter, must... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...And long it was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming... | |
 | 1860 - 996 pages
...inspiration direct from this source. These memorable words of his, " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings!... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 pages
...think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ?— " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poctn; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...of a Goethe. Our canon of art is best spoken in Milton's own words : " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem." Yet the virtue and the vice of a great nature are near allied. This self-poised grandeur... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 pages
...in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things; not presuming to... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...And it was not long after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things; not presuming to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...gravité et convenance, il évitait les disputes de religion ; mais si on attaquait la sienne, trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern ofthe best and honourablest things, not presuming to... | |
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