 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praise1 Milton's Prose Works (Bohn's edition, 1848), Second Defence of the People of England, i. 257.... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 630 pages
...presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the erperience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain niconess of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem, either of what I was or wlwt I might be... | |
 | John Edward Kempe - Devotional literature - 1877 - 404 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice of that which is praiseworthy." f Milton was himself a true poem before he wrote ' Paradise... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1761 - 582 pages
...realbnings, together with a certain nicencfs of nature, an honeft haughtinefs, and felfefteem either of what I was, or what I might be, (which let envy call pride) and laftly that modefty whereof, though not in the title-page, yet here, I may be excufed to make forae... | |
 | Mormons - 1899 - 500 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing of higher praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading, to build up within himself this reverence... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...composition, and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. In The reason of church government Milton reveals a theory of poetry drawing on all the sources available... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." (Early Lectures, t, 150) As this suggests, Emerson obviously no longer felt that his predecessor's... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy."48 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.'1s When he wrote these lines of reminiscence (to which I have added a few italics), perhaps... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 2000 - 548 pages
...composition and partern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice ot all that which is praiseworthy." We shall, then, content ourselves with stating thtee reasons which... | |
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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... 
