...writers on this point of school compositions. Milton rejects the practice altogether, and calls it " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,....acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head tilled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters,"...

...altogether, and calls it "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and ora« tions, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final...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...

...the 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 inventions. Thefe are not matters, " he continues, to...

...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,...

...exaction, ""7fbfcing ine empty wits of diildren to "Wmipose thumts, verses, and orations, "" Hvhich are the acts- of ripest judgment, and " the final work of a head filled,' by long " Wading • and observation, with elegant " rhaxims and copious invention. These " are not iimttcrs...

...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...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...

...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, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides...

...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 copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit, besides...

...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...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...

...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...