 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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...or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides, the ill liabit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutored... | |
 | Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...and observing, with elegant 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 fruit."1 He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin and English, in verse and prose : he... | |
 | Classical philology - 1812 - 494 pages
...and observing, with elegant 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 fruit. '•' He makes no difference between compositions, in Latin, and English, in verse and prose : he equally,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...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,...untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wrelched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...presumption Englisht.] In his Tractnt, Of Education, MILTON speaks of " the ill habit which poor striplings get of wretched " barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their un" tutor'd Anglicisms, odious to be read." He was therefore ambitious of accommodating his English... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1820 - 614 pages
...observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from young striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking...fruit, besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarising against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutor'd Anglosisms, odious to be read,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...and copious in' vention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, ' like blood flowing out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely ' fruit...wretched barbarizing ' against the Latin and Greek idioms, with their untutored Angli' asms, odious to read, yet not to be avoided without a well conES... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton's Paradise Lost. Compositions on any important subjects are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings;...out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit. id. On Education, As when young striplings whip the top for sport, On the smooth pavement of an empty... | |
 | Classical education - 1829 - 188 pages
...a head filled, by " long reading and observing, with elegant maxims " and copious invention. These are not matters " to be wrung from poor striplings,..." of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit." F He then notices, like Ascharn, " the ill habit which " they get, of wretched barbarizing against... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - 126 pages
...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters," he adds, "to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking untimely of fruit." We give no scope for such remarks as these in the species of composition required... | |
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... 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... 
