 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - Počet stránok 390
...— that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless...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 - Počet stránok 404
...— that is, a composition and pattern of * the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless...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 - Počet stránok 400
...a 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... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn, James Dodds - 1875 - Počet stránok 412
...; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless...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 - Počet stránok 704
...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... | |
 | 1876 - Počet stránok 556
...; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things : not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities unless...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1877 - Počet stránok 472
...poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless...the experience and the practice of all that which is praise1 Milton's Prose Works (Bohn's edition, 1848), Second Defence of the People of England, i. 257.... | |
 | John Edward Kempe - 1877 - Počet stránok 404
...poem, that is a 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 practice of that which is praiseworthy." f Milton was himself a true poem before he wrote ' Paradise... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1877 - Počet stránok 406
...a com- work to be position 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 practice of all that which is praiseworthy.' Thus he grew up in his father's house in Bread Street,... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 630
...poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablcst things ; not 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... | |
| |
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... 
