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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 159
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...observes in his "Apology for Smectymnuus," 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, a composition of the best and honourablest things, and have in himself the experience and practice of all that which...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...long it 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...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...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to b$ a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...Jong it 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 himself to be u true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...long it 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...best and honour-ablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...his youth, he says, — " I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...true poem ; that is. a composition and pattern of the honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...would not be frustrate of his hope to .write well hereafter in laudahle•things, ought himself to bfr a. true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...long it 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...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...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...the guileless heart; 36 « i was confirmed in the opinion that he, who would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought...that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things, not presuming to sing the high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...in his ' Apology for Smectymnnus, 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, a ' tompotition of the liest and finnourablest things, — and have in himself tfte experience and practice...
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