...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...vapours 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...

...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;...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. io 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...

...admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...

...admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...

...admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...

...Italian Catholicism or Italian morals. Dr. Johnson, in his " Life of Milton," cannot refrain from looking "with some degree of merriment on great promises and...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The fair comment on this is that Milton made no great promises, that he never seems to have intended...