 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...  English Poetry and Poets - Seite 185von Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 506 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1894 - 1020 Seiten
...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 not be...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... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 Seiten
...verse, displaying sublime and pure 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 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 338 Seiten
...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...himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1858 - 234 Seiten
...• Nor stain the sword, nor drop the shield that MILTON. 9. On this day, 1608, Milton was born. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem."—MILTON, Apology for Smectymntws. 0! NOT to-day, mine England, with proud eye Thy retinue of... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...verse, displaying sublime and pure 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 well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to T)ea true poem; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | 1856 - 416 Seiten
...that ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tilings, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.'... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 Seiten
...verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be...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 heroick men... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 Seiten
...lifestruggle against vice, and error, and darkness, in all their forms. He had started with the conviction " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; " and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
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