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" But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury... "
Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ... - Page 99
by Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 579 pages
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, after two or three years ffjat...
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Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, but to ride out in companies with...
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Utopia; Or, the Happy Republic: A Philosophical Romance

Saint Thomas More - 1845 - 356 pages
...10 The author, we see, was no friend to the penances of monkery ; hut thought, like Milton, that " in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." Tractate on Education, § 22. Select Prose Works, 1. 164. shadow~of virtue; or for no better end than...
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The master passion, and other tales and sketches

Thomas Colley Grattan - 1845 - 932 pages
...below; the inagnific hills shooting far up above the clouds ! Was not Milton right when he said, " It were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth ?" Is it not rapture to have burst one's prisonbars — to tear off...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness againsl nature, not to go out and s<w her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth....
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Addresses at the Inauguration of the Hon. Edward Everett, LL.D., as ...

Harvard University - 1846 - 72 pages
...and when he pronounces it, " in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." But passing over this topic, however important, as not falling distinctly within the purview of the...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

1846 - 844 pages
...learned." In the vernal season of the year, when the air was calm and pleasant, he pronounces, that it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth. As regards travelling, he recommends that we should see our own country...
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Iberia Won: A Poem Descriptive of the Peninsular War, with Impressions from ...

T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 pages
...la cadena fiera. Lope de Vega, Arcadia. " To pluck the summer flowers, and brush the dewy grass." " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...riches, and partake in her rejoicing with Heaven and Earth."—Milton, Tractate on Education, § 22. VHI. " Invoked the Virgin's might, " And deemed she...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself "abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and ea th. JI should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, after two or three years...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Advertiser, Volumes 1-2

William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 pages
...before, As fair, asjocund ; but I am no more The thing I was. — R. Fanshawe—1653. VERNAL WALKS. In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...against Nature, not to go out and see her riches, and participate in her rejoicings with heaven and earth. — Milton. AN APOLOGY FOR THE TELEGRAPH, In answer...
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