 | 1830 - 550 pagina’s
...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 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." " is best for you to do ; as you know all circumstances better than ourselves : and we trust that kind... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 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...THE PRACTICE of all that which is praiseworthy."* His whole character — all his habits of thought and feeling, the hopes of his youth, and his plans... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 314 pagina’s
...These means, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem, either of what I was or what I might be, (which let envy call pride,) and lastly, a burning modesty, all uniting their natural aid together, kept me still above those low descents of... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 pagina’s
...hist." He had to answer the charge of lewdness and sensuality from his reverend accuser! "These means, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem, either of what I was, or what I might be, (which let envy call pride,) and lastly, a burning modesty,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 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. 237, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pagina’s
...presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the erperience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain likeness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and selfesteem either of what I was, or what I might be,... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem either of what I was, or what I might be, (which let envy call pride,) and lastly that modesty, whereof... | |
 | 1838 - 428 pagina’s
...composition and pattern of the 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 practice of all that which is praiseworthy." What, indeed, are the writings of the great poets of our... | |
 | 1839 - 636 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...of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem either of what I was or what I might be, which let envy call pride, and lastly that modesty, whereof... | |
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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... 
