 | Hugh Blair - 1837 - 242 pages
...side, laborious indeed at the Hist ascent; fmt else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly pi ospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not iinore charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires fo render it harmonious. The words are well... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...musical sentence in our own language, we may take the following from Milton's Treatise on Education : " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious, indeed,...side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." .'Inah/xix. Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words arc happily chosen... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1838 - 280 pages
...?— What instance of a musical •onteiice is given ?— What is said of it ? you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent ; but else so...charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires to render it harmonious. The words are well chosen ; laborious, smooth, green, goodly, melodious, charming... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...being read by all who love true poetry; who, when they first peruse him, are conducted to a hill side, laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds, on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Chaucer... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...conduct you to a hill side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. — MILTON.... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." 479.... | |
 | George Peabody College for Teachers - 1925 - 212 pages
...and virtuous education" described by John Milton, England's poet and our poet, whose right path is "so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious...side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming," that inflames the soul of youth "with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up... | |
 | John Milton - 1927 - 208 pages
...conduct you to a hill-side, where Ijvill point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1918 - 470 pages
...indeed become "steadfast pillars of state." Such is Milton's ideal "of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Since... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 408 pages
...conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt... | |
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I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth,... 
