 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
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pages
...formulate later in An Apology (p. 16): 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 him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things;... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...Horace's advice. . . . Milton with great depth of judgment observes 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 honorablest... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...intellectual phases of his youth: 'And long it was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion: 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 high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless he have... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 pages
...pure thoughts, without transgression. 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 him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things;... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 pages
...practices. In An Apology against a Pamphlet Milton describes the exemplary author in terms of a poem: "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things"... | |
 | Jan Pilditch - 1996 - 296 pages
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 | Timothy Miller - 1997 - 368 pages
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