 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...final work of a head 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 pages
...final work of a head 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 all the ill hahit which they get of wretched... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. 76 out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit ; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched... | |
 | 1881 - 516 pages
...called ''original composition" (whether in English or Latin) seems just now to be rather discredited. " These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings,...from the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit." The question then to be asked seems to be, " Has literature, as such, any place at this stage of school... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...final work of a head 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.' 3 Having demonstrated what we should not do, —... | |
 | John Milton - 1883 - 80 pages
...final work of a head 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 326 pages
...final work of a head 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 378 pages
...final work of a head 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 all the ill habit which they get of wretched... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 464 pages
...final work of a head 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 758 pages
...final work of a head 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... | |
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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... 
