 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - English poetry - 1858 - 234 pages
...• Nor stain the sword, nor drop the shield that MILTON. 9. On this day, 1608, Milton was born. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem."—MILTON, Apology for Smectymntws. 0! NOT to-day, mine England, with proud eye Thy retinue of... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...that ever adorned humanity with wealth 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 tilings, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.'... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 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 well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to T)ea true poem; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...contemporaries 'not to be ignorant of his own parts.' Besolved to be a poet, his firm opinion was, that ' he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.' Resolved to be a poet, we say, for al though, when first sent to Cambridge, it had been with the intention... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...against vice, and error, and darkness, in all their forms. He had started with the conviction " 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 ; " and from this he never... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 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 well hereafler in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and pattern... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...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 - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
