 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...says, in his usual noble style, 'I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the host and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable tiiings, ought himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition...best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...in his usual noble style, ' 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 » true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming... | |
 | John Milton - Latin letters, Medieval and modern - 1829 - 130 pages
...superior to all the Roman authors in combining brevity and copiousness— would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the most honourable things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1830 - 540 pages
...Jong it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of bis hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praise? of heroic men and famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...his usual noble style — 1 1 was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablesl things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...his usual noble style — ' I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1830 - 530 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,...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorables! things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men and famous cities, unless he... | |
 | 1830 - 550 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 the practice of all thai which is praiseworthy." Well might such a man expect "to leave something so written to after times,... | |
 | lady Pleasance Smith - 1832 - 652 pages
...in his usual noble style, ' I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things,...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... | |
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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... 
