 | George Colman - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...to themts and verfet as fchool exercifes, " forcing the empty wits " of children to acls of ripeft judgment, and the " final work of a head filled, by long reading and " obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious in«« vention." But furely fuch objections deny to the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...forcing the empty wits of children to compofe themes, verfes, and orations, which are the afts of ripeft judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and obferving, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor... | |
 | 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, 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 well filled by long reading, and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...forcing 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 invention. Thefe are not matters to be wrung from poor ftriplings,... | |
 | 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,Jike blood out of the nose, or the plucking... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 874
...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... | |
 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...the practice altogether, and calls it " 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 tilled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters,"... | |
 | Edward Copleston - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...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,... | |
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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... 
