 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 - Seite 66von Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 Seiten
...doctor, it will be remembered that he says, •' let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with merriment on great promises and small performance...hastens home because his countrymen are contending for liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away /its patriotism in a private boardin... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 Seiten
...sons to the same privilege. On this Dr. Johnson remarks, " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance: on the man frho hastens home because his countrymen are con tending for their liberty, and when he reaches the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 Seiten
...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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 Seiten
...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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all . But if he had made... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 Seiten
...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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 Seiten
...with these treatises before him, could have written : — "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 school." It is even more marvellous that... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 Seiten
...sons to the same privilege. On this Dr. Johnson remarks, "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...his patriotism in a private boardingschool." This unworthy sneer is easily confuted. Milton knew his own intellectual powers too well— even had he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 Seiten
...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...and small performance, on the man who hastens home be• August, 1639. cause his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and -when he reaches the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 840 Seiten
...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 and small performance, on the man who hastens Lome, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 Seiten
...his Life of Milton. " Let not onj veneration for Milton," says the great lexicographer, " 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." The " great promises" consisted in announcements... | |
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