 | 1834 - 440 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pagine
...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 - 276 pagine
...eighteenth year, by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius,...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 - 556 pagine
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pagine
...authors with very nice discernment I once heard Mr. Hampton, the tianslator of Polybius, remark, what 1 collect honey ; he, in either case, produces a simile...generally unlike, as unlike as intellect and body. But arc very few : Haddon and Ascharn, the pride of Elizabeth's reign, however they have succeeded in prose,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pagine
...very nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the* tianalator of Polybiue, remark, what I think i- true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after...verses with classic elegance. If any exceptions can he made, they are very few : Haddon and Ascham, the pride of Elizabeth's reign, however they have •net-ceded... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pagine
...read the Roman authors with very nice discernment. Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remarked that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance. Of the exercises, which the rulers of the University required, some were published by him in his maturer... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pagine
...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 elassical elegance. When he first became a student in the University, he had formed a resolution of... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pagine
...eighteenth year, by which it appears that he had then read the Uoinan authors with nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Miitori was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with chssic... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pagine
...place him in the first rank of writers and critics. A great classical scholar has pronounced that he was the first Englishman, who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classical elegance. In addition to all this acquired mental garniture, he had the original fount of... | |
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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... 
