 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pagina’s
...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...niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and selfesteem either , of what I was or what I might be, which let envy call pride, and lastly that modesty, whereof... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praise worthy.' Vol. I. p. 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless be have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praise worthy.' Vol. I. p. 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' — Vol. I. p. 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' — Vol. I. p. 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | 1828 - 562 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the host and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' — Vol. ip 224. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pagina’s
...of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous 5 cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. Vol. I. pp. 237, 8. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 130 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the most honourable 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 is praiseworthy.' that is, narrating much in few words. Such are the qualifications I consider indispensable... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablesl things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Vol. I. pp. 237, 8. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablcst things ; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Vol. I. pp. 237, 8. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
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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... 
