 ... such, it carries with it a lesson of deep, impressive significance. Surely it would become such a man, furnished for the highest of all enterprises, that of being the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts, and in what spirit...  Carlyle's Essay on Burns - Page 68by Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts, and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...neither its lofty glories, nor its fearful perils, are for him. Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger ; let him worship and be-sing the idols of the... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1830 - 696 pages
...the Poet of his Ago, to consider well what it is that he attempts and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...never truer than in this : " He who would write heroic pocras, must make his whole life a heroic poem." ' 'With our reader« in general, with mon of right... | |
 | bart Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - Authors - 1834 - 468 pages
...forgiven for citing two or three lines only from one more beautiful passage of this Reviewer : — " The words of Milton are true in all times, and were...heroic poems, must make his whole life a heroic poem.' " My business is not to make up these volumes with extracts from other authors. It is now nearly thirty... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...from this arena ; for neither its lofty glories, nor ils fearful perils, are for him. Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger ; let him worship and be-sing... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts, and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...neither its lofty glories, nor its fearful perils, are for him. Let him dwindle into a modish ballad-monger ; let him worship and be-sing the idols of the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...spirit he attempts it ; for the words of Milton were true at all times, and were never truer than at е so make his life, then let him hasten from this arena ; for neither its lofty glories, nor ite fearful... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts, and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...neither its lofty glories, nor its fearful perils are for him. Let him dwindle into a modish ballad-monger ; let him worship and be-sing the idols of the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...the Poet of his Age, to consider well what it is that he attempts, and in what spirit he attempts it. For the words of Milton are true in all times, and...neither its lofty glories, nor its fearful perils, are for him. Let him dwindle into a modish ballad-monger; let him worship and be-sing the idols of the... | |
 | James Marshall - Lodge Canongate Kilwinning (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1846 - 186 pages
...goodness ; and that the blame of his failure, as we have said, lies not chiefly with the world. . . . The words of Milton are true in all times, and were...dwindle into a modish balladmonger ; let him worship and bo-sing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail to reward him. If, indeed, he can endure... | |
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