...Latin poems, of which Dr. Johnson says, " I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybins, say that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classical elegance." While at Cambridge he wrote his Elegy, " Ad Thomam Junium pnecoptorem suum, apud...

...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,...Haddon and Ascham, the pride of Elizabeth's reign, 10 however they may have succeeded in prose, no sooner attempt verses than they provoke derision. If...

...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 was the first English- 10 man who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance. If any...

...essays,' have been surpassed by many, and particularly by Cowley; but only a few lines later he 'thinks it is true that Milton was the first Englishman who,...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance.' Again, when discussing Milton's 'literature,' he states that, 'In Latin his skill was such as places...

...in his academy. With an evidently sincere respect for Milton's scholarship, he endorses the judgment that Milton was " the first Englishman who after the...letters wrote Latin verses with classic elegance." And withal Milton is a " great man " in Johnson's eyes — a great man, whose biographers paid him...

...scholars of Milton's time were indeed accomplished Latin versifiers. The often-quoted dictum of Johnson, ' that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the...letters, wrote Latin verses with classic elegance,' is, in the first place, not Johnson's own, but only quoted by him with dubious assent ; in the second...

...the Roman authors with very nice discernment. I once heard Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius4, remark, what I think is true, that Milton was the...the ' revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance5. If any exceptions can be made they are very few ; Haddon 6 and Ascham 7, the pride...

...expectations: they would in any numerous school have 10 obtained praise, but not excited wonder. 1 first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with _clagsjc .'elegance. If any exceptions can ""be" made, they are very few: Haddon and Ascham, the pride...

...of Richardson's treatise '. He repeats the statement of Mr. Hampton, the translator of Polybius, ' that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with elassick elegance ', and echoes the expression of Dr. Gregory that he had seen erected in Westminster...

...has shown an added awareness of rarer and more positive virtues. Dr Johnson endorsed the judgment ' that Milton was the first Englishman who, after the revival of letters, wrote Latin verses with classick elegance.'3 Landor, while finding many faults, declared in his Landorian way that Milton's...