...above them all, preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honor of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying...to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himO ' O self to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...

...recollection that he was a steward in the Presence of God, and, as he says in the Apology for Smectymnus, " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things : not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless he...

...some ill-conditioned passages from his prose, let us quote from it a passage of another stamp : — ' And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablcst things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he...

...inspirer of intellect, and especially of the higher efforts of poetry. In his usual noble style, he says, "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 of higher praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless...

...fountain: a study in the language of symbolism rev ed 1968 ELIZABETH SEWELL SIRIGNANO To be a true poem And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem. . . Apology for Smectymnuus A poet writes for people. He does not write for professors, English classes,...

...we pronounce that such a prose is intolerable. When we find Milton writing: 'And long it was not 15 after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem,' — we pronounce that such a prose has its own grandeur, but that it is obsolete and inconvenient....

...Ibid., p. 5. 47. Campbell, "Creativity," p. 142; Eco, Aesthetics of Aquinas, pp. 98-102. 48. ". . . he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things. . . ." John Milton, "An Apology for Smectymnuus," in Bush, The Portable Milton,...

...breeding. (DO 24) Cicero's point is not far from Milton's observation in the Apology for Smectymnuus that "he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things" (Milton 694), a remark that itself fashions the exemplary individual in rhetorical...

...attempts to write Petrarchan sonnets. Instead, he continues with the passage which we have already noted: 'And long it was not after when I was confirmed in...high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Although this...

...["Introductory Remarks"] It was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcibly, laid down the principle "that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to...himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition of the best and honourablest things."7 Often as this golden wisdom has been neglected by our poets...