...never write but honour of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression. And long it. was not after,...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;...

...especially of the higher efforts of poetry. " I was confirmed," he says in his usual noble style— "I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...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;...

...with extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forciMy, laid down the principle "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 of the best and honor-ablest things." .Often as this...

...with extracted specimens. IT was our divine Milton, who, wisely as forcih.'.y, laid down the principle "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 of the best and honorablest things." Often as this...

...us those they feel within ? Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " 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 honorablest things ;...

...never write but honor of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts without transgression. And long it was not after,...to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things ;...

...us those they feel within? Milton gives us the philosophy of Christian epic poets, when he says, " 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 honorablest things ;...

...things, he will do well practically to remember what Milton has no less truly than finely said— " 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...

...though blind, had I no better guide." The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would...to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and most honourable things...

...rivalling Jove, make thunder, then Noise has apotheosis, and all ears are open ! It is a saying of Milton, that " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem," that is, as he himself explains, " a composition...