 | George Colman - 1787 - 338 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 456 sider
...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 - 1806 - 440 sider
...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 - 1806 - 446 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 496 sider
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 494 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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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... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and... 
