 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of hertiic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain niceness... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...himself " to be a true poem, that is, a " torn position of the best and honout ablest things, — and have in himself the experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy : of the truth of which observation he himself is, I think, a shining instance in this charming scene... | |
 | Jones Very - History - 1839 - 202 pages
...; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless...experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy." What, indeed, are the writings of the great poets of our own times but epics ; the description of those... | |
 | Calvin Pease - Lectures and lecturing - 1842 - 56 pages
...and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men and famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy." It is worse than vain to look without, to find the Truth, or the means of exhibiting it. The man must... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...frustrated 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...in himself the experience and practice of all that is praiseworthy." He regarded poetic genius as one of God's highest and best gifts to men, involving... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...— 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...practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Thus far we have spoken of the character of Milton generally. We propose now to consider his life as divided... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 580 pages
...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...experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Milion, Apology for Sinectym. — 3. C. 'H 8e (dpeT7j)7roiJjToC owe'Cewrat TTJ TOV av6p<airov KOI ov\... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 440 pages
...ought himself to be a true poem — that is a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of heroic...experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Milton, Apology for Smectym, — SC Kal ov\ oloVre ayaObv yevea-Oai Troiijrrjv, fxr) Ttporepov yevrjOivTa... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...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 heroic...experience and practice of all that which is praiseworthy." To break away from the law against his father's advice, and to seek support from his art among strangers,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. TheM reasonings, together with a certain niceness of... | |
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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... 
