...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....

...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...maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung1 from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides...

...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....

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

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...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...

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...given both to schools and universities ; lartly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty vite of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the înal work of a head filled by long reading and observng, with elegant maxims and copious invention....