The SchoolmasterCassell, 1909 - 192 páginas |
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amongst Aristotle Ascham authors better Cæsar Cheke child choice Cicero common commonly contemn court deed Demosthenes diligently divers doctrine doth double translating eloquence England English epistles epitome Euripides example excellent learned exercise fair father fault fear follow God's goodly grammar Greek hath Homer honest Horace Humphrey Wingfield imitation Isocrates Italian Italy John's judgment kind labour Latin tongue living Livy manners marvellous matter men's misliking misorder nature never noble notable opinion oration overmuch paraphrasis perfect Petrarch plain plainly Plato Plautus pleasure praise profit quick Quintilian religion rhyming ROGER ASCHAM rude saith Sallust schoolmaster sentences Sir John Cheke Socrates Sophocles speak Sturmius surely talk teaching Terence thereby things Thucydides true Tully Tully's unto utterance vanity Varro verse Virgil whole wisdom wise wisest withal words worthy writing wrote Xenophon young gentlemen youth δὲ καὶ τε
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Página 40 - I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 8 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle— to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do, as so should every man understand him and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Página 65 - To join learning with comely exercises, Conto Baldesar Castiglione in his book Cortegiane doth trimly teach ; which book advisedly read and diligently followed but one year at home in England, would do a young gentleman more good, I wiss, than three years travel abroad spent in Italy.
Página 40 - I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to...
Página 12 - This done thus, let the child, by and by, both construe and parse it over again ; so that it may appear, that the child doubteth in nothing that his master taught him before. After this, the child must take a paper book, and sitting in some place, •where no man shall prompt him, by himself...
Página 133 - Latin tongues, the two only learned tongues, which be kept not in common talk, but in private books, we find always wisdom and eloquence, good matter and good utterance, never or seldom asunder. For all such authors, as be fullest of good matter and right judgment in doctrine, be likewise always most proper in words, most apt in sentence, most plain and pure in uttering the same.
Página 62 - I would wish, that beside some good time fitly appointed, and constantly kept, to increase by reading the knowledge of the tongues and learning; young gentlemen should use, and delight in all courtly exercises, and gentlemanlike pastimes.
Página 59 - We know by experience itself, that it is a marvellous pain to find out but a short way by long wandering. And surely, he that would prove wise by experience, he may be witty indeed, but even like a swift runner, that runneth fast out of his way, and upon the night, he knoweth not whither.
Página 49 - ... whatsoever it cost, how small soever his living be, by what shift soever it be gotten, gotten must it be, and used with the first, or else the grace of it is stale and gone.
Página 105 - And a better and nearer example herein may be, our most noble Queen Elizabeth, who never took yet Greek nor Latin grammar in her hand, after the first declining of a noun and a verb; but only by this double translating of Demosthenes and Isocrates daily, without missing, every forenoon, and likewise some part of Tully every afternoon, for the space of a year or two, hath attained to such a perfect understanding in both the tongues, and to such a ready utterance of the Latin, and that with a judgment,...