 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - Bishops - 1851 - 438 pages
...empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and positions. °* " orations, which are the acte of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled,...maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters, he continues, to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood flowing out of the nose,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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...filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxima and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out... | |
 | Claude Marcel - Foreign Language Study - 1853 - 458 pages
...practice of "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, versions, and orations, which are acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing .... These," he adds, '' are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which," says he, " are the arts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled...reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention." The remark, though directed especially against juvenile essays in the learned languages,... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...definition of poetry which Milton had given, may appear to be fulfilled ; since, without question, it was the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. Nor can the art of expert judgment be fairly denied to the author. The reception of the... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...other sources of information. Milton might well censure as a " preposterous exaction," what he calls " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which, 11 says he, " are the arts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...other sources of information. Milton might well censure as a " preposterous exaction," what he calls " forcing the empty wits of 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 and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...Universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose theme*, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
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And 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... 
