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 - Seite 621von Monthly literary register - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...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 things laudable, ought himself to T)ea true poem; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 Seiten
...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 honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he have... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 Seiten
...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...that is, a 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... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 322 Seiten
...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 and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless that... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 718 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1860 - 720 Seiten
...in our view, the selfish art of a Goethe. Our canon of art is best spoken in Milton's own words : " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem." Yet the virtue and the vice of a great nature are near allied. This self-poised grandeur of mind in... | |
| Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 Seiten
...daily paper. Beside, who can think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ?— " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...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... | |
| 1860 - 996 Seiten
...English language, drew his inspiration direct from this source. These memorable words of his, " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings! He had not only... | |
| William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - 1860 - 384 Seiten
...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 things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern of the best and... | |
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