 Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year, by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton...  The Retrospective Review - Strana 181825Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - Počet stránok 430
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polyhius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...with classic elegance. If any exceptions can be made, they^are very few : Haddon and Ascham, the pride of Elizabeth's reign, however they have succeeded... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - Počet stránok 484
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance." Milton's Latin exercises, which he recited publickly, are also marked with characteristick... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - Počet stránok 460
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance." Milton's Latin exercises, which he recited publickly, are also marked with characteristick... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - Počet stránok 532
...a place among the choicest maxims of the scholar. Dr. Johnson concurs with Hampton, in the opinion that Milton was the first Englishman, who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance. But this was a small part of his attainments. He had caught the very spirit of philosophy, and burned... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - Počet stránok 438
...authors with very nice discernment. Indeed, it has been remarked, by an eminent literary character, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classical elegance. When he first became a student in the University, he had formed a resolution of... | |
 | 1834 - Počet stránok 440
...versifications: so much so that it was remarked by Mr. Hampton, the learned translator of Polybius, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance: on leaving college he repaired to his father's house in the country, -where he passed five years in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - Počet stránok 722
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses wilh classic elegance. If any exceptions can be made, they are very few : Haddon and Ascham, the pride... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Počet stránok 390
...spared." . He, however, quotes with approbation the remark of Hampton, the translator of Polybius, that " Milton was the first Englishman who, after...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance " — See Johnson's Life of Milton. TO THE REV. MR. BUCHANAN. Weston, May 11, 1791. My dear Sir—... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Počet stránok 276
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance." Aubrey has left on record 1 a gossipping story about our poet having suffered the indignity of corporal... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - Počet stránok 556
...the translator of Polyhius, that Milton's Latin poetry, while at college, showed him to have heen " the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance." Milton himself says, " This good hap I had from a careful education — to he inured and seasoned hetimes... | |
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