 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 Seiten
...thoughts, without transgression. And long it was not after, when // I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that 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... | |
 | 1847 - 610 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 Seiten
..." I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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 the practice... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 Seiten
..." I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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 the practice... | |
 | 1849 - 602 Seiten
...against vice, and error, and darknesss, in all its forms. He had started with the conviction "that ances honorableest things ;" and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might... | |
 | 1856 - 666 Seiten
...a true poet. His noble words on this subject are as follows : — " He that would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...that 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... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 Seiten
...hereafter iu landable things, ought himself to be a true pocm ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous citics, unless he have himself the expericnce and the practice of all that is praiseworthy.' Nor is... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...enchantments of the man who had slept. * "And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion 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 and pattern of the best... | |
 | 1881 - 792 Seiten
...confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not bo frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter ia laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is a composition and pattern of the best and houorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
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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... 
