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... Essays and Poems - Page 34by Jones Very - 1839 - 175 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1855 - 338 pages
...ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* S^ Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter... | |
| Thomas Hornblower Gill - 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... | |
| William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...pure 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... | |
| 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.'... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...pure 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...best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...lifestruggle 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...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; " and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might be compared to an... | |
| 1859 - 534 pages
...early life and juvenile studies : " And long it was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things." And again he writes, in reply to a coarse reviler : " I am not one who ever disgraced beauty of sentiment... | |
| 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...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... | |
| William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 322 pages
...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...best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless that he gave himself experience and practice of... | |
| Elizabeth D. Harvey, Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1990 - 380 pages
...me" (889; the word "nature" recurs) that is the discovery of other authors. Thus the famous sentence, "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to be a true Poem" (890). Futurity depends upon prior textualization. But so, insistently,... | |
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