 | John Milton - 1725 - 372 Seiten
...Work of a Head fill'd by long reading and obferving, with elegant Maxims, and copious Invention. Thefe are not Matters to be wrung from poor Striplings, like Blood) out of the Nofe, or the plucking of untimely Fruit ? Befides the ill Habit which they get of wretched barbarizing... | |
 | Jenkin Thomas Philipps - 1750 - 388 Seiten
...Work of a Head fill'd by long reading and obferving, with elegant Maxims, and copious Invention. Thefe are not Matters to be wrung from poor Striplings, like Blood out of the Nofe, or the plucking of untimely Fruit. Befides, the ill Habit which they get of wretched barbarizing... | |
 | George Colman - 1787 - 362 Seiten
...and verfes as fchool exercifes, “forcing the empty wits “of children to a¿ts of ripeSt judgment, and the • “final work of a head filled, by long reading and “obfcrving, with elegant maxims, and copious in. vcntion.” But Surely fuch objc¿S1ions deny to... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 436 Seiten
...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, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1807 - 540 Seiten
...the nets of ripest judgment, and Ihe final work of a head filled, by long reading and observation, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrong from poor striplings, l;ke" blood' out of the nose, or '" the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 452 Seiten
...empty wils 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 inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of... | |
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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... 
