 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...  The Monthly magazine - Page 621by Monthly literary register - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...poetry. ' I was confirmed,' he says, in his usual noble style, 'I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the host and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...poetry, ' I was confirmed,' he says, in his usual noble style, ' I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be » true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...poetry. « I was confirmed,' he says, in his usual noble style, « I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tiiings, ought himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...Sallust, in my estimation, is superior to all the Roman authors in combining brevity and copiousness— would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the most honourable things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...poetry. ' I was confirmed,' he says in his usual noble style — 1 1 was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablesl things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...poetry. ' I was confirmed,' he says in his usual noble style— ' I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1830 - 540 pages
...Jong it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of bis hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praise? of heroic men and famous cities, unless he... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...asserting their impersonality) 1 " 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 laudable tilings, ought himself to be a true poem." — MILTON'S Apology for Smectymuuus. — far more certain... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...of an antagonist. He " was confirmed," he says, " in this opinion : that he who would not frustrate his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 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...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the erperience and the practice... | |
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