 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,...  The English Journal of Education - Page 1511847Full view - About this book
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...side, laborious, indeed, at the tune ascent , but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.— Milton's Tractate of Education. Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...a musical sentence, w* may take the following, from Milton : " We shall conduct you to a bill side, laborious, indeed, at the first ascent; but else, so smooth, so green, so full of good-. ly prospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 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...side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt not but ye shall have more ado to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stabs,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...take the following from Milton, in his Treatise on Education. " We shall conduct you to a hill-side, •laborious, indeed, at the first ascent; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." Every... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...mountaineers. I). (.209 ) PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY; BY HIMSELF. " I will conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not half so charming." AFTER all the critical... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...secluded mountaineers. PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY; BY HIMSELF. " I will conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not half so charming." AFTER all the critical.denunciation... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...indeed, at the first ascent ; but else, so month, so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melooious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." A striking example of the sound being made an echo to the sense, is exhibited in Milton's description... | |
 | Arminianism - 1865 - 1194 pages
...path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but on every side so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." In public schools, the nature and affections of the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...* The following is a very harmonious sentence from Milton : " We shall conduct you te a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent ; but else, so smooth, so green, BO full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds, on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...as one of the most musical which the language affords : — " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." A new... | |
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