| George Colman - 1787 - 338 pages
...themes and verfes as fchool exercifes, " forcing the empty wits " of children to a&s of ripeft judgment, and the *' final work of a head filled, by long reading and " obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious in" vention." But furely fuch obje&ions deny to the improvement... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the afts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor... | |
| Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant...or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides, the ill liabit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutored... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes/ and orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and obfetving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor firiplings,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the acts of ripeft judgment, and the .final work of a head filled by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor ftriplings,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,Jike blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides the ill habit which... | |
| Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters," he continues, " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit."1 He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin and English, in verse and prose : he... | |
| Classical philology - 1812 - 494 pages
...and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters," he continues, " to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. '•' He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin, and English, in verse and prose : he equally,... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...and of his native and original strength. — " Poetry (says Milton) is the art of expert judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention." * • It will hardly be necessary, after what I have said, to take notice of the opinions of those,... | |
| 1824 - 604 pages
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of riper judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or... | |
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