 | 1842 - 630 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 pàgines
...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " 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 of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 382 pàgines
...daily paper. Beside, who can think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ? — " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pàgines
...daily paper. Beside, who can think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ? — " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pàgines
...all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' He declared that ' he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the heart and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
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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... 
