 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 pages
...Epicurus, or the details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises Of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 pages
...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...life-struggle against vice, and error, and darknesss, in all its forms. He had started with the conviction "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorableest things ;" and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...a true poet. His noble words on this subject are as follows : — " He that would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...after, when I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...awoke, any thing of the enchantments of the man who had slept. * "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 in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pages
...though blind, had I no better guide." The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not...write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things; not presuming... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not bo frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter ia laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is a composition and pattern of the best and houorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...Primum ipni tibi. Milton with great depth of judgment observes, in his " Apology for Smeetymnuus," that, " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to bo a true poem, that is, a eomposition of the best and honourablest... | |
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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... 
