...us hear what our great poet has to say on this point. "He, who would aspire to write well hereafter, ought himself to be a true poem — that is, a composition and a pattern of the best and honourablest things — not presuming to sing high praises of high men and...

...them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression. And long it was not after when I was confirmed in...and honourablest things, — not presuming to sing * *. e. most inclined to love, and to light and amorous reading. t It certainly must have been by a...

...verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression. And long it was not after when 1 was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things, — not presuming to sing * »'. e. most inclined to love, and to light and amorous...

...that ever adorned humanity with wealth of wit and words of wisdom.* Milton has prettily observed : ' He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the honourablest things.' In few cases, we firmly believe, has the truth of this principle met with a fitter...

...Primum ipsi tibi. Milton with great depth of judgment observes, in his " Apology for Smectymnuus," that, " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is, a composition of the best and honourablest...

...lecturer, as sure as fate, a rebuke, though from young lips, that would have made his old face blush. " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem:" — fancy that sentence — an early and often pronounced formula of Milton's, as we may be sure it...

...bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write...laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem. Tract of Education. I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but...

...of Lycidas and Comus ; and above all, moulding and consolidating his own character and life into " a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things." Of this period of his life, in his apology, Milton says, — "My morning haunts...

...the highest mission had been entrusted to him, he seems to have said to himself, like Milton : •• I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...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 he have...

...those to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in...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...