 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 honour-ablest things; not presuming to sing...  Improvement Era - Page 3601899 - 1146 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Vol. I. pp. 237, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the Best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Vol. I. pp. 237, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...; 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...himself the experience and the practice of all that is praiseworthy." — MILTON. For if the dreamer, after he had awoke, were to relate to me his nonsense,... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the 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 of all that is praiseworthy." He regarded poetic genius as one of God's highest and best gifts... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 486 pages
...would hope to write a laudable poem, should himself be a true poem, "not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Thomas Carlyle, in his six celebrated lectures, speaks of the hero as Divinity, as Prophet, as Poet,... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Thus far we have spoken of the character of Milton generally.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pages
...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...the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." We shall, then, content ourselves with stating three reasons which at this moment occur to us why these... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." — Apology for Smectymnuus. Here, at last, therefore, we have Milton's own solution of the matter... | |
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