 | 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...that is, a 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 pages
...Ibid., p. 5. 47. Campbell, "Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in Bush, The Portable Milton,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...enlightenment he most desires comes only through holiness and purity. Hence, Milton's famous dictum 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" enacts a fundamentally prophetic gesture. Similarly prophetic is his... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...from "An Apology of Smectymnuus" that Emerson quotes in the excerpt from "John Milton" just discussed (that" 'he who would not be frustrate of his hope...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; ... a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things' "). Channing then treats these early... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1993 - 372 pages
...Sonnet 7, the Letter to an Unknown Friend, "Lycidas," and Reason, he remarked in Apology for Smectymnuus "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;... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - 1994 - 266 pages
...lies behind Milton's famous version of the ancient dictum that a good orator must be a good man:30 "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"... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...activity as the final preparation for a heroic poem. As he puts it in the Apology, "he who would . . . write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," presumably, in his case, by involvement in a just cause. In the Reason of Church Government Milton... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky, Lawrence D. Needham - 1995 - 330 pages
...breeding. (DO 24) Cicero's point is not far from Milton's observation in the Apology for Smectymnuus that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things" (Milton 694), a remark that itself fashions the exemplary individual in rhetorical... | |
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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... 
