 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 หน้า
...Epicurus, or the details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises Of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 หน้า
...Epicurus, or the details of agriculture, for something to suit his purpose. — ED. * Dante and Petrarch. opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his...that is, a composition and pattern of the Best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 หน้า
...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says, in his usual noble style, — " I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would...best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | 1849 - 602 หน้า
...life-struggle 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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorableest things ;" and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might... | |
 | 1856 - 666 หน้า
...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,...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | Saint-Marc Girardin - 1849 - 264 หน้า
...who awoke, any thing of the 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... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 หน้า
...hereafter iu landable things, ought himself to be a true pocm ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous citics, unless he have himself the expericnce and the practice of all that is praiseworthy.' Nor is... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 หน้า
...though blind, had I no better guide." The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...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... | |
 | 1881 - 792 หน้า
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 808 หน้า
...heroic, we 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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
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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... 
