 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 274 pages
...with extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcibly, laid down the principle " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition of the best and honorablest things." Often as this golden wisdom VOL. I. 3 has been neglected by our... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 528 pages
...with extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcibly, laid down the principle "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition of the best and honorablest things." Often as this golden wisdom has been neglected by our poets—often... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 722 pages
...with extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcibly, laid down the principle " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...hereafter, in laudable things, ought himself to be a true VOL. I. B poem, that is, a composition of the best and honourablest things." Often as this golden wisdom... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 538 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...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 636 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...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 598 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...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the... | |
 | Jones Very - History - 1839 - 202 pages
...us those they feel within? Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the... | |
 | Jones Very - History - 1839 - 186 pages
...us those they feel withinï Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1839 - 590 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...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...things, he will do well practically to remember what Milton has no less truly than finely said — " 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 of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
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that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is. a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things 
