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" ... that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. "
On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ... - Page 47
by Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 67 pages
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age." * This treatise, though offering...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age." b This treatise, though offering...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 17

Abraham John Valpy - 1820 - 612 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choisest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a compleate...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 14

1854 - 1112 pages
...infinite desire of such happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tcnderest and most docible age." Yet, after all that teaching...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles which is commonly set be1* fore them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 36

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...is to be established in every city, offering a wholesome and happy nurture to our youth, instead of that ' asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the • We wish we could aSbrd room for quoting at length the defence of polygamy. It is perhaps...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to hale and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits to that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call therefore a complete...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the ..., Volume 1

1836 - 432 pages
...infinite desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to haul and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits . to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of ...

Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...desire of such a happy nurture, than we have now to haul and drag our choicest and hopefullest wits lo that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age. I call, therefore, a complete...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 36

1827 - 630 pages
...established in every city, offering a wholesome and happy nurture to our youth, instead of that ' asmine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the * We wish we could afford room for quoting at length the defence of polygamy. It is perhaps...
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