 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 Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 страници
...England." "Dr Johnson sneeringly remarks," said Frank, "'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,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 страници
...subsequently he received more pupils ; and this occupation has drawn on him Jonson's ridicule, as "a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Milton's controversial pen, however, soon shewed that his retirement was as actively auxiliary to the... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 страници
...Churchyard, and took lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...away his patriotism in a private boarding.school." Johnson does not explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him ;... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 страници
...teaching, with the right sort ol youth, would hare produced '• prodigies of wit [mind] and learning." of merriment on great promises and small performance,...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 страници
...following remarks on the educational labors of our author. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 страници
...Churchyard, and took lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Johnson does nflt explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him... | |
 | 1928 - 692 страници
...public employments he opened a school. "Let not our veneration for Milton," mocks Johnson, "forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens 3 George Birkbeck Hill [editorl. Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets," Oxford, 190.ri, Vol. I. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 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...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private Doarding-school. This is the period of his life from which all biographers seem inclined to shrink.... | |
 | William Landels - 1883 - 246 страници
...pen, and in a lumbering and spiteful sentence says : — " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of performance, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-house." One is sorry for that sneer,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 страници
...tells us that we ought not to allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man 'who hastens home because his countrymen are '...away his patriotism ' in a private boarding-school ; ' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately... | |
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