 ... forcing the empty wits 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 invention. These are not matters to...  The Classical Journal - Page 2391812Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Education - 1883 - 80 pages
...fill'd by long 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 plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 pages
...filled by long 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 plucking of untimely fruit. Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 376 pages
...tilled by long 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 plucking of untimely fruit ; besides all the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom,... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...filled by long 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 plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 pages
...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he says, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 468 pages
...long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to bo , wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 758 pages
...filled, by long 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 plucking of untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1895 - 120 pages
...by 25 long 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 plucking of 5 untimely fruit : besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters toe be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with... | |
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