 | 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
...of thought, 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...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
...idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the 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... | |
 | 1820 - 606 sider
...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgement, and the finall work of a head fill'd by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims,...invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides the ill habit... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 614 sider
...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgement, and the finall work of a head fill'dby long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and...invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides the ill habit... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 sider
...oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses,...the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of ahead fill'd, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and .cop'ious invention. 1 hese are... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1822 - 266 sider
...remark of a whimsical natural history which I have read, though I do not recollect its title; however and the final work of a head filled by long reading...maxims and copious invention." — " These are not (he continues") matters to be wrung from children, like blood from the nose, or plucking of untimely... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1822 - 264 sider
...1st series, vol. ii. t Milton, in his little work on Education, reprobates the practice of " Forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgment, for acquiring the minor qualifications of grammatical correctness, and tact... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 sider
...oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses,...out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get <of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sider
...idle vacancies given both to schools and universities : * partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of ' children to compose themes, verses,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious in' vention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, ' like blood flowing out of the... | |
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And 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... 
