 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 דפים
...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...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,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 דפים
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. TheM reasonings, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 דפים
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." We shall, then, content ourselves with stating three reasons which at this moment occur to us why these... | |
 | 1860 - 996 דפים
...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 experience and the practice of all tluit which is praiseworthy." We have only space for the last few lines. After that, Alexander's barge... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 דפים
...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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." We have only space for the last few lines. After that Alexander's barge has swept the river with death... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 דפים
...composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the...praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a certain uiceness of nature, an honest haughtiness, and self-esteem either of what I was or what I might be... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 דפים
...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, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading to build up within... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 דפים
...himself the experience and practice of ail that wnich h praiseworthy. (Apoloyy for Stnectymnus.) •> These reasonings, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem kept me still above those low descents of inind, beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 720 דפים
...composition and p'attern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to smg high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and practice of ail that which u praiseworthy. (Apotoyy for Suicctymnu$.) These reasonings, together wita... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 דפים
...; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men, or famous cities, unlesse he have in himselfe the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy. These reasonings, together with a ccrtaine nicenesse of nature, an honest haughtinesse, and self-esteem either of what I was, or what... | |
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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... 
