Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts from Other Writings of MiltonYale University Press, 1928 - 369 sider |
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... wits of children to compose themes , verses , and orations , which are the acts of ripest judg- ment , and the final work of a head filled , by long reading and ob- serving , with elegant maxims and copious invention . These are not ...
... wits of children to compose themes , verses , and orations , which are the acts of ripest judg- ment , and the final work of a head filled , by long reading and ob- serving , with elegant maxims and copious invention . These are not ...
Side 54
... wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy , do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning , mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements , while they expected worthy and delightful ...
... wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy , do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning , mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements , while they expected worthy and delightful ...
Side 55
... wits to that asinine feast of sow - thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age . I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a ...
... wits to that asinine feast of sow - thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age . I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a ...
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... wit , Alexander the Great and Octavius Cæsar , both of them pupils of philosophy . It is as if a kind of model of election had been divinely exhibited to men , showing them to what sort of man , above all , the baton and reins of ...
... wit , Alexander the Great and Octavius Cæsar , both of them pupils of philosophy . It is as if a kind of model of election had been divinely exhibited to men , showing them to what sort of man , above all , the baton and reins of ...
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... wits desire . I have some naked thoughts that rove about , And loudly knock to have their passage out , And weary of their place , do only stay Till thou hast decked them in thy best array ; That so they may , without suspect or fears ...
... wits desire . I have some naked thoughts that rove about , And loudly knock to have their passage out , And weary of their place , do only stay Till thou hast decked them in thy best array ; That so they may , without suspect or fears ...
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Side 135 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Side 250 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Side 87 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Side 52 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 163 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Side 177 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Side 106 - Cyriack, this three-years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Side 169 - Spanish poets of prime note, have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Side 168 - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Side 44 - To whom the patriarch of mankind replied : O favourable spirit, propitious guest, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set From centre to circumference, whereon, In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.