 | William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - Blind - 1860 - 384 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 be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 pages
..." I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " 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 honorablcst things; not presuming to sing of high... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...POET MUST MAKE HIS LITE A POEM. And it was not long 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 houourablest things; not presuming to sing high... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - London (England) - 1862 - 314 pages
...which literary duties and character should rest. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to unite 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...gravité et convenance, il évitait les disputes de religion ; mais si on attaquait la sienne, trate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern ofthe best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE POET. And long it was not after, when I was confirm 'd in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himselfe to bee a true Poem ; that is, a composition and patterne of the best and honourablest things... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...ii. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Ibid. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem. Apologg for Smectgmnuus. I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do,... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 461 pages
...unsandalled feet, for we tread on holy ground. His whole life was an exposition of his noble words, — "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... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 468 pages
...unsandalled feet, for we tread on holy ground. His whole life was an exposition of his noble words, — "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... | |
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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... 
