 | 1864 - 998 pages
...any thoughts to express, or any facility of expressing them, in his own. It is, as Milton has it, ' forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...work of a head filled by long reading and observing.' Translation from the best English at least compels the exact study of the thoughts and words of the... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - School management and organization - 1831 - 198 pages
...tyranny, to bid them make bricks who have not yet any of the materials;' and Milton condemns, as ' preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children...the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a bead filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...our time lost partly in ' toe 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 in' vention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, ' like blood flowing out of the... | |
 | Education - 1834 - 408 pages
...preparatory exercises. 'That which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head rilled by long reading and observing-, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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...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... | |
 | James Simpson - Education - 1834 - 350 pages
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous exaction from the empty wits of children, to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are ths acts of ripest judgment." In another place, Milton says, " Though a linguist should pride himself... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in that which is attributed to Homer, to have written...knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the layin invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...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...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention."* It will hardly be necessary, after what I have said, to take notice of the opinions of... | |
 | Education - 1836 - 432 pages
...behind is our time lost 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 inveution. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 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 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... 
