 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." " is best for you to do ; as you know all circumstances better than ourselves : and we trust that kind... | |
 | 1833 - 422 pages
...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 in...THE PRACTICE of all that which is praiseworthy."* His whole character — all his habits of thought and feeling, the hopes of his youth, and his plans... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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...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 - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Vol. I. p. 237, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises n Milton erperience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain... | |
 | 1838 - 428 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest 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." What, indeed, are the writings of the great poets of our... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...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...the practice of all that which is praise-worthy." THE LAUREL AND THE ROSE. BY JW MARSTON, ESQ. «O! WHAT is like me?" said the laurel-tree, " I constant... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pages
...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 in...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem... | |
 | Jones Very - 1839 - 202 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest 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." What, indeed, are the writings of the great poets of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in...himself the experience and the practice of all that is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain niccness of nature, an honest haughtiness,... | |
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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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honour-ablest things; not presuming to sing... 
