 Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance — on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action,...  The Lives of the English Poets - Страница 66по Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his life from which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 страници
...not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and and small performance ; on the man who hastens home,...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." To excite merriment by rendering Milton ridiculous for having preferred the pen to the sword, was an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 страници
...he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. . Let not our veneration for Mill on forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the mau who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 страници
...iu laughing at one, who " hastens home, because his countrymen were contending for their liberties, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." But in, another passage, he acknowledges that this, man of "great promises, and small... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milten forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 страници
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster... | |
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