| Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 páginas
...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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things, — not presuming to sing * »'. e. most inclined to love, and to light and amorous... | |
| 1855 - 326 páginas
...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...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 páginas
...deplored ; and, above them all, preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never wrote but honour of them to whom they devote their verse,...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... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 páginas
...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...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem:" — fancy that sentence — an early and often pronounced formula of Milton's, as we may be sure it... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem. Tract of Education. I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but... | |
| 1894 - 1020 páginas
...the highest mission had been entrusted to him, he seems to have said to himself, like Milton : •• I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...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... | |
| 1855 - 338 páginas
...ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* S^ Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter... | |
| Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1858 - 234 páginas
...• 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... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 páginas
...preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura [Dante and Petrarch], who never write but honor of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
| 1859 - 534 páginas
...be too often quoted, he writes, in 1642, after referring to his early life and juvenile studies : " And long it was not after when I was confirmed in...that is, a 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... | |
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