 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 Monthly magazine - Page 621by Monthly literary register - 1839Full view - About this book
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...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,...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...against vice, and error, and darknesss, in all its forms. He had started with the conviction "that ances honorableest things ;" and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...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 and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...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 famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 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... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...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 write...cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Thus far we have spoken of the character of Milton generally.... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...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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