 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." — -Apology for Smedymnuus. Here, at last, therefore, we have Milton's own judgment on the matter... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 404 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...and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." — Apology for Smcdymnuus. Here, at last, therefore, we have Milton's own judgment on the matter of... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 דפים
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high piaises of heroic men or famous cities unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy."—Apoloyy for Smcctymnuus. Here, at last, therefore, we have Milton's own judgment on... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 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,... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn, James Dodds - 1875 - 412 דפים
...composition and pattern of the best and 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.'1 In a sphere more nearly approaching the one before us, that of the civic orator,... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 704 דפים
...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of herou.k men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all tlmt which is praiseworthy. These reasoning?, together with a certain niceness of nature, an honest... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 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...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 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...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,... | |
 | 1876 - 556 דפים
...composition and pattern of the best and most honourable 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." The intellectual life of Milton is divisible into three parts. The First, when he wrote what has been... | |
 | 1877 - 626 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...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... 
