 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 461 sidor
...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." In the bloom of his beautiful youth, he wrote " L' Allegro," " II Penseroso," and " Lycidas." The first... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 468 sidor
...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." In the bloom of his beautiful youth, he wrote " L' Allegro," " II Penseroso," and " Lycidas." The first... | |
 | 1899 - 974 sidor
...composition and pattern of the best and honourablesb things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practise of all that which is praiseworthy." ^^ Milton does not mean that great art will be, in the... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 sidor
...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." This magnificent and glorious sentence reminds us of those lines in Cowley's Ode on Liberty (he was... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 sidor
...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. . . . Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 sidor
...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...the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.'' This magnificent and glorious sentence reminds us of those lines in Cowley's Ode on Liberty (he was... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 sidor
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 234 sidor
...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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 sidor
...composition and pattern of the best and honourable«! things; not presuming to sing of high praises of heroic thed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious reading, to build up within himself this reverence... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 sidor
...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 that which is praise1 Milton's Prose Works (Bonn's edition, 1848), Seeond Defence of the People of England, i. 257.... | |
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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... 
