 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
 | 1853 - 530 страници
...sneer which is too injurious to be neglected. "Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made "great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...indeed most of his dwellings after his settlement in London. 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 - 1854 - 468 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 232 страници
...indulge in one of his " growling sarcasms." " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." But Dr. Johnson, great as he is in the realm... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 240 страници
...indulge in one of his " growling sarcasms." " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action vapors away his patriotism in a MR. SMITH S LECTURE. I private boarding-school." But Dr. Johnson, great... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 страници
...teaching, with the right oort of .youth, would have produced u.prodigife.of >wit [mind] and learning." of merriment on great promises and small performance,...hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for th«ir liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 страници
...kind. Take this one passage as a specimen of the whole. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performances ; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 404 страници
...false charge too injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "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." It is not true that Milton had made " great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 418 страници
...false charge too injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "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." It is not true that Milton had made " great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 396 страници
...false charge too injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "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." It is not true that Milton had made " great... | |
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