 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...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...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' — Vol. ip 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...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...best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...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; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous 5 cities, unless... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be » true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the most honourable things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic...himself the experience and the practice of all that is praiseworthy.' that is, narrating much in few words. Such are the qualifications I consider indispensable... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...poem; 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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Vol. I. pp. 237, 8. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men and famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all thai which is praiseworthy." Well might such a man expect "to leave something so written to after times,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...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 honorablcst things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...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 honorablesl things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
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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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing... 
