 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
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1877 - 422 pages
...com- work to be position 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 which is praiseworthy.' Thus he grew up in his father's house in Bread Street,... | |
 | 1877 - 630 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablcst things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the erperience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 528 pages
...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,...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which he drew... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 368 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,... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 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. In The reason of church government Milton reveals a theory of poetry drawing on all the sources available... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." (Early Lectures, t, 150) As this suggests, Emerson obviously no longer felt that his predecessor's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...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...the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy."48 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 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...the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.'1s When he wrote these lines of reminiscence (to which I have added a few italics), perhaps... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 2000 - 548 pages
...poem; that is, a composition and partern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice ot all that which is praiseworthy." We shall, then, content ourselves with stating thtee reasons which... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 2002 - 248 pages
...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things — not pretending to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy" (694). The personal and the poetic are inevitably political for Milton. "Chastity is the alternative... | |
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