 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 sider
...tunes. Id. Wmttr'iTalt. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing against them be away; such as envy, hitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. Btn J onion. It is barbarous incivility,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 sider
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...judging and pronouncing against them be away ; such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. For to all the observations of the... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 sider
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...trust from them ; provided the plagues of judging ¡nul pronouncing against them be away ;. such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 sider
...flowery light ; where they may take the eye, and be taken by the hand. AUTHORITY OF ANTIQUITY. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to examine the writings of tho ancients, and not to rest in their sole authority, or take all upon trust from them ; provided... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sider
...in his reason what he accounts it and will make it. B. JONSON 536. NON NIMIUM CREDENDUM ANTIQUITATL I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to...are envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence and scurrile scoffing. For to all the observations of the ancients we have our own experience; which if... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 sider
...abler still. Men are decayed, and studies : she is not. XXI. Non nimium credendum antiquitati. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters, than to examine the writings of the ancieijls, and not to rest in their sole authority, or take 'aliupon trust from them ; provided the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 sider
...whom we converse. HUME. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing against them be away; such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. BEN JONSON. They think that whatever... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sider
...whom we converse. HUME. Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, efficacy to invigorate and to heal. They envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing. BEN JONSON. They think that whatever... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 206 sider
...Shakespeare — if his good friend Ben had but known it. the composition of his Roman tragedies, ' than to examine the writings of the ancients, and not to rest on their sole authority, or take all upon trust from them ; provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 204 sider
...strength is abler still, Men are decayed, and studies : she is not'. Non nimium credendum antiquitati. — I know nothing can conduce more to letters than to...are envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurrile scoffing. For to all the observations of the ancient: we have our own experience, which if... | |
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... scoffing. For to all the observations of the Ancients we have our own experience, which if we will use, and apply, we have better means to pronounce. It is true, they opened the gates, and made the way, that went before us; but as guides, not commanders:... 
