...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...to us a careful, a solemn, a sacre.i task, and not in anywise to be undertaken in the columns of n daily paper. Beside, who can think of Milton without...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poctn; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing...

...persistently celebrate had been the aim of the poet himself many years since. As he wrote in 1642, "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem" (p. 62). To what extent the poem has been realized will continue to be...

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