 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Primum ipsi tibi. Milton with great depth of judgment observes, in his " Apology for Smectymnuus," 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 of the best and honourablest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem. Tract of Education. I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...of Lycidas and Comus ; and above all, moulding and consolidating his own character and life into " a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things." Of this period of his life, in his apology, Milton says, — "My morning haunts... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 pages
...the highest mission had been entrusted to him, he seems to have said to himself, like Milton : •• 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 high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pages
...those to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to oe 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 that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...those to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...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... | |
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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... 
