| 1881 - 792 pages
...Witness the following extracts from his writings in reference to this point. '-And long it was uot after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not bo frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter ia laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem,... | |
| 1851 - 808 pages
...heroic, we can never appreciate his poetry. We must understand (as he himself has finely expressed it) 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 of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...Primum ipni tibi. Milton with great depth of judgment observes, in his " Apology for Smeetymnuus," that, " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to bo a true poem, that is, a eomposition of the best and honourablest... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pages
...daily paper. Beside, who can think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ? — " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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... | |
| 1852 - 634 pages
...lecturer, as sure as fate, a rebuke, though from young lips, that would have made his old face blush. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in landable things, ought himself to be a true poem :" — fancy that sentence — an early and often... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem;... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...good man. Dedication to the Fox.* Ben Jonson has borrowed this just and noble sentiment from Strabo. * "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 440 pages
...good man. Dedication to the Fox.* Ben Jonson has borrowed this just and noble sentiment from Strabo. * "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter iu laudable things ought himself to be a true poem — that is a composition and pattern of the best... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...us hear what our great poet has to say on this point. "He, who would aspire to write well hereafter, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and a pattern of the best and honourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of high men and... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression. And long it was not after when 1 was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would...and houourablest things, — not presuming to sing * »'. e. most inclined to love, and to light and amorous reading. f It certainly must have been by... | |
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