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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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing... "
Lives of Sacred Poets - Page 20
by Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 363 pages
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...in his "Apology for Smectymnuus," 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 of the best and honourablest things, and have in himself the experience and practice of all that which...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...confirmed in the opinion that he who would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem,...high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless ha has in himself the experience and the practice of all that u praise-worthy." Apol. for Smect.—...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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 ;...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to b$ a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be u true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of hertiic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 ;...best and honour-ablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...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 ; that is. a composition and pattern of the honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to .write well hereafter in laudahle•things, ought himself to bfr a. true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern...best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...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, that...best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...confirmed in the opinion that he, who would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter 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 the high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...
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