 | Jones Very - 1839 - 202 pages
...us those they feel within? Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 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...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... | |
 | 1842 - 630 pages
...great (5) master, « when I « was confirmed in this opinion, that he who should hope to « write well in laudable things ought himself to be a true « poem...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and ho» nourablest things. » We know no English Poet who so speedily attained and so easily preserves... | |
 | Calvin Pease - 1842 - 56 pages
...rivalling Jove, make thunder, then Noise has apotheosis, and all ears are open ! It is a saying of Milton, 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, as he himself explains, " a composition... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 pages
...usual noblo style — "I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not he frustrate of his hopo to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...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 the practice... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...of those to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without trangression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem... | |
 | 1849 - 600 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...well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to he a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorable7 est things ;" and from... | |
 | 1914 - 964 pages
...shall now gird his temples with the sun," which he pronounces intolerable. The second is from Milton: "And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrat of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poet."... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...His character was as grand as his epic. How much is expressed in the single sentence which follows ! "And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men and famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1827 - 516 pages
...inspirer of intellect, and especially of the higher efforts of poetry. In his usual noble style, he " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...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 the practice... | |
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