 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1875 - 540 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...elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not maiters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - 208 páginas
...children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which," says he, " are the arts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." The remark, though directed especially against juvenile essays in the learned languages, applies no... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, ighbouring shore, Was taught by Shakspeare's Tempest barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to be read,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 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...the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides all the ill hahit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 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 invention.7 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 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...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he says, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...theme?, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a he:id filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. odious to be read, yet not to be avoided without a well-continued and judicious conversing among pure... | |
 | 1881 - 516 páginas
...called ''original composition" (whether in English or Latin) seems just now to be rather discredited. " These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood from the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit." The question then to be asked seems to be, " Has... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 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...out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.' 3 Having demonstrated what we should not do, — 'I shall detain you now no longer, . . . but straight... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head tilled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims...out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit.' • Having demonstrated what we should not do, — 'I shall detain you now no lonirer, . . . but straight... | |
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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... 
