 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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 laudable things, ought...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...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 of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - American essays - 1859 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...wild oats" apologists — the poet's " fixed idea" being, that whoso " would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a • true poem" — that he who would not be frustrate of being great, or doing good hereafter, must be on his guard from the... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...own parts.' Besolved to be a poet, his firm opinion was, that ' he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in 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, Thomas Binney - Blind - 1860 - 384 pages
...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 honourablest thing; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless that he gave himself... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...Goethe. Our canon of art is best spoken in Milton's own words : " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in 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... | |
 | 1860 - 996 pages
...inspiration direct from this source. These memorable words of his, " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in 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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ?— " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...inspiration direct "from this source. These memorable words of his : " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in 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... | |
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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... 
