 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 páginas
...wits of ' children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the ' acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by ' long 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 páginas
...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, who think... | |
 | 1836 - 432 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious inveution. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Central Society of Education - 1837 - 432 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." It may, at the same time, be well to consider whether the accurate and orderly description of objects... | |
 | 1837 - 646 páginas
...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 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment.t and the final work of a head filled by long reading...; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 páginas
...page." Schiller in Greek or a Ritschl to supply the lacuna in Plantus ; but, as Milton concludes, " these are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,...out of the nose or the plucking of untimely fruit." And yet, after all their true British boasting, the schools of England must be very defective in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, ration. IGhoiti.] I believe that the whole frame of a b 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 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment,* and the final work of a head filled by long reading...; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read,... | |
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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... 
