 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 sider
...behind is our time lost in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judginent, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and... | |
 | James Simpson - 1836 - 308 sider
...master of the Edinburgh Institution for Languages, &c. App. No. II. LOCKE — GIBBON SMITH BYRON. 59 children, to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment." In another place, Milton says, " Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that... | |
 | Central Society of Education - 1837 - 432 sider
...which habit, when once acquired, is not easily lost. Milton, in his Essay on Education, speaks of " the forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." It may, at the same time, be well to consider whether the accurate and orderly description... | |
 | 1837 - 646 sider
...reflection — " Slow rises worth by poverty deprcss'd." Milton has told us that Poetry is the art of expert judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observation, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. His practice corresponded with his theory.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 sider
...applies to Milton with a deeper emphasis. He has himself told us, that Poetry is the art of expert judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observation, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. His practice corresponded with his theory.... | |
 | 1839 - 598 sider
...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...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | 1839 - 636 sider
...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...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 sider
...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...verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment.t and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 sider
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in d thec : ob*erving, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor strii/lings,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 sider
...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...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or 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... 
