 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pàgines
...of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after when I was confirmed in...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... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 322 pàgines
...opinion, that he who would not be 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 honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless that... | |
 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 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...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poctn; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing... | |
 | 1860 - 996 pàgines
...English language, drew his inspiration direct from this source. These memorable words of his, " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings! He had not only... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pàgines
...English language, drew his inspiration direct "from this source. These memorable words of his : " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings ! He had not... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pàgines
...wrong or under-value an honest meaning. THE TRUE POET MUST MAKE HIS LITE A POEM. And it was not long after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 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 honorablcst things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
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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... 
