 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 honourablest things; not presuming to sing...  The Works of William E. Channing - Page 32de William Ellery Channing - 1845Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...lecturer, as sure as fate, a rebuke, though from young lips, that would have made his old face blush. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem:" — fancy that sentence — an early and often pronounced formula of Milton's, as we may be sure it... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pages
...verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a'composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...the conviction " that he who would not be frustrate/ofnis hope to write well hereafter in lauuabTei things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern ofjjhc best and honorablest things ; " and from this he never Bwen'tar Tlis life was indeed a true... | |
 | 1855 - 338 pages
...ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* S^ Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1858 - 234 pages
...• Nor stain the sword, nor drop the shield that MILTON. 9. On this day, 1608, Milton was born. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem."—MILTON, Apology for Smectymntws. 0! NOT to-day, mine England, with proud eye Thy retinue of... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to T)ea true poem; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...that ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tilings, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.'... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...contemporaries 'not to be ignorant of his own parts.' Besolved to be a poet, his firm opinion was, that ' he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...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 with the intention... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. 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 hereafler in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and pattern... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...in our view, the selfish art 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...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 of mind in... | |
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