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
| Jones Very - 1839 - 202 Seiten
...us those they feel within? Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " 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 ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 Seiten
...things, he will do well practically to remember what Milton has no less truly than finely said— " 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 honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 Seiten
...blind, had I no better guide." The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be...write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things ; not presuming... | |
| 1842 - 630 Seiten
...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... | |
| Calvin Pease - 1842 - 56 Seiten
...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... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 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 himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 Seiten
...usual noblo style — "I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not he frustrate of his hopo to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not. presuming to sing of high praises of heroic... | |
| Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...Milton, in his own strong prose, that nobody " can write well in laudable things, who is not himself a true poem, — that is, a composition of the best and honorablest things." Still the very highest poetry from Spencer to Bryant reflects continually the sacred light of the spiritual... | |
| John Brazer - 1843 - 308 Seiten
...Milton, in his own strong prose, that nobody "can write well in laudable things, who is not himself a true poem, — that is, a composition of the best and honorablest things." Still the very highest poetry from Spencer to Bryant reflects continually the sacred light of the spiritual... | |
| 1849 - 600 Seiten
...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... | |
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