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
| David Masson - 1859 - 718 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 hereafler in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and pattern... | |
| 1860 - 720 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 Seiten
...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 not...himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men... | |
| C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 Seiten
...persistently celebrate had been the aim of the poet himself many years since. As he wrote in 1642, "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem" (p. 62). To what extent the poem has been realized will continue to be... | |
| Elizabeth D. Harvey, Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1990 - 380 Seiten
...me" (889; the word "nature" recurs) that is the discovery of other authors. Thus the famous sentence, "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to be a true Poem" (890). Futurity depends upon prior textualization. But so, insistently,... | |
| John Beebe - 1992 - 200 Seiten
...Ibid., p. 5. 47. Campbell, "Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . 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 best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in... | |
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