 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
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...Epicurus, or the details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...Epicurus, or the details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his...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,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 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 honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men... | |
 | 1849 - 602 Seiten
...life-struggle against vice, and error, and darknesss, in all its forms. He had started with the conviction quaintances and pattern of the best and honorableest things ;" and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...awoke, any thing of the 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... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1851 - 808 Seiten
...heroic, we can never appreciate his poetry. We must understand (as he himself has finely expressed it) 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 honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 Seiten
...Primum ipni tibi. Milton with great depth of judgment observes, in his " Apology for Smeetymnuus," that, " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to bo a true poem, that is, a eomposition of the best and honourablest... | |
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