 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 528 pages
...extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcih.'.y, laid down the principle "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition of the best and honorablest things." Often as this golden wisdom has been neglected... | |
 | Jones Very - History - 1839 - 202 pages
...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 write...in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing of... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 pages
...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...in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " 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 be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things ; not presuming... | |
 | Calvin Pease - Lectures and lecturing - 1842 - 56 pages
...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 - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...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 write...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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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... 
