 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...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 and small performance...should be degraded to a school-master ; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...dwellings after his settlement in London. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance...should be degraded to a school-master ; but since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 страници
...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 and small performance...his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are iinwjIHng that. Miltnn should be degraded to a school-master ; but, emee*it camtot be denied that~tlg~TaugHt... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 232 страници
..." growling sarcasms." " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance,...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
..." growling sarcasms." " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance,...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 страници
...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...liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The passage is as false as it is malicious.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 1857 - 574 страници
...education of his nephews, John and Edward Phillips. Dr. Johnson, in his life of (he poet, remarks : " This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster; but since it cannot... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 404 страници
...injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "forbid us to look with some degree 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." It is not true that Milton had made " great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 412 страници
...injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, "forbid us to look with some degree 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." It is not true that Milton had made " great... | |
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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,... 
