 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...  The Retrospective Review - Page 181825Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polyhius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...with classic elegance. If any exceptions can be made, they^are very few : Haddon and Ascham, the pride of Elizabeth's reign, however they have succeeded... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance." Milton's Latin exercises, which he recited publickly, are also marked with characteristick... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance." Milton's Latin exercises, which he recited publickly, are also marked with characteristick... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 pages
...a place among the choicest maxims of the scholar. Dr. Johnson concurs with Hampton, in the opinion that Milton was the first Englishman, who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance. But this was a small part of his attainments. He had caught the very spirit of philosophy, and burned... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...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 classical elegance. When he first became a student in the University, he had formed a resolution of... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses wilh classic elegance. If any exceptions can be made, they are very few : Haddon and Ascham, the pride... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...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 pages
...nice discernment. I once heard Mr Hampton, the translator of Polybius, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...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 pages
...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... | |
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