 | Eliza Meteyard - 1862 - 314 pages
...which literary duties and character should rest. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to unite well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to...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... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 pages
..."Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in Bush, The Portable Milton,... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...quotes in the excerpt from "John Milton" just discussed (that" 'he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; ... a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things' "). Channing then treats these early... | |
 | 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
...from Milton's observation in the Apology for Smectymnuus that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things" (Milton 694), a remark that itself fashions the exemplary individual in rhetorical... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...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 things, — and have in himself the experience and practice of all that... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...elsewhere in the Apology he gave his earnest conviction 'that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...consequences. MILTON John 1608-1674 7454 An Apology for Smectymnuus He who would not be frustrate of his life is not knowledge, but actlon. 4928 If some great power would agree to make 7455 An Apology for Smectymnuus His words ... like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 2000 - 548 pages
...touch of his speat exposed deceit. Sweetymmius.' [ Smectymmius.' "He who would nor be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and partern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous... | |
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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... 
