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... The Life of John Milton - Pagina 212door Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pagina’s
...Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ? — " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 pagina’s
...this opinion, that he who would not frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition...best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have himself experience and practice of all... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pagina’s
...Jonson has borrowed this just and noble sentiment from Strabo. * "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought...and honourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 440 pagina’s
...noble sentiment from Strabo. * "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter iu laudable things ought himself to be a true poem —...that is a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pagina’s
...us hear what our great poet has to say on this point. "He, who would aspire to write well hereafter, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and a pattern of the best and honourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of high men and... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pagina’s
...long it was not after when 1 was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things, — not presuming to sing * »'. e. most inclined to love, and to light and amorous... | |
| 1855 - 326 pagina’s
...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 things, ought...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pagina’s
...in his " Apology for Smectymnuus," 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 of the best and honourablest things ; and have in himself the experience and practice of all which... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 pagina’s
...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 laudable things, ought...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 pagina’s
...though from young lips, that would have made his old face blush. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem:" — fancy that sentence — an early and often pronounced formula of Milton's, as we may be sure it... | |
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