...all their forms. He had started with the conviction " that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well . hereafter in laudable things, ought...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ; " and from this he never swerved. His life was indeed a true poem ; or it might be compared to an...

...was not after when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things." And again he writes, in reply to a coarse reviler : " I am not one who ever disgraced beauty of sentiment...

...oats" apologists — the poet's " fixed idea" being, that whoso " would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a • true poem" — that he who would not be frustrate of being great, or doing good hereafter, must be on his guard from the...

...parts.' Besolved to be a poet, his firm opinion was, that ' he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem.' Resolved to be a poet, we say, for al though, when first sent to Cambridge, it had been with the intention...

...opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, in things laudable, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest thing; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless that...

...Our canon of art is best spoken in Milton's own words : " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem." Yet the virtue and the vice of a great nature are near allied. This self-poised grandeur of mind in...

...direct from this source. These memorable words of his, " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings! He had not only...

...Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses ?— " He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poctn; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things; not presuming to sing...

...direct "from this source. These memorable words of his : " He that would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," lets us into the secret place of thunder, into the source of all his lofty imaginings ! He had not...

...not long after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and houourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he...