 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1858 - 234 pages
...• Nor stain the sword, nor drop the shield that MILTON. 9. On this day, 1608, Milton was born. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem."—MILTON, Apology for Smectymntws. 0! NOT to-day, mine England, with proud eye Thy retinue of... | |
 | 1856 - 416 pages
...that ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tilings, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.'... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...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 write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to T)ea true poem; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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 write...honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...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 write...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 be compared to an... | |
 | 1859 - 534 pages
...life and juvenile studies : " And long it was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things." And again he writes, in reply to a coarse reviler : " I am not one who ever disgraced beauty of sentiment... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 322 pages
...opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem; that is a composition...high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless that he gave himself experience and practice of all that is praiseworthy." And again: " That I may... | |
 | 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 write...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...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 write well hereafler in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and pattern... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...in our view, the selfish art of a Goethe. Our canon of art is best spoken in Milton's own words : " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem." Yet the virtue and the vice of a great nature are near allied. This self-poised grandeur of mind in... | |
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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... 
