 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 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 laudahle•things, ought himself to bfr a. true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of .the best... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 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...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...hand, the guileless heart; 36 « i was confirmed in the opinion that he, who would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing the high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he has in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...Poet. 102. i Milton with great depth of ' judgment observes in his ' Apology for Smectymnnus, that ' he who would not be frustrate ' of his hope to write well in ' laudable things, ought himself ' to be a true poem, that is, a ' tompotition of the liest and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable tilings ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
 | 1826 - 548 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 honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
 | 1827 - 634 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 honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
 | 1827 - 516 pages
...the man till then ; never felt how entirely and supremely he was a poet, or, to use his own words, ' a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things.' We never knew till then, what a noble, highminded being, what a contemner of littleness and baseness,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 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...best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous 5 cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 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 honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless... | |
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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... 
