 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...  Works - Página cpor Thomas Gray - 1835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Colman - 1787 - 362 páginas
...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 - 342 páginas
...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 - 456 páginas
...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 matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the nose, or the plucking... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 páginas
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 páginas
...the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, I which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long...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 - 874 páginas
...the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and ora« tions, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by...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... | |
 | Edward Copleston - 1810 - 208 páginas
...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 - 446 páginas
...passage, the resemblance is drawn ; and therefore it cannot be objected, that the one allusion which I have marked, is needless ; because many others equally...allusions are pointed out, and that his original genius will be depreciated by exhibiting the quantity of his acquired materials. It may be asked, however,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 páginas
...forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of riper judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious inventions. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1822 - 266 páginas
...remark of a whimsical natural history which I have read, though I do not recollect its title; however and the final work of a head filled by long reading...observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention." — " These are not (he continues") matters to be wrung from children, like blood from the nose, or... | |
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