 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
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 Seiten
...because his countrymen are contending for their 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 all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They -are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster;... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 Seiten
...veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some 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." Milton himself tells us what were the civic... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 Seiten
...veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some merriment on ^reat 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." Milton himself tells us what were the civic... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 Seiten
...and parliament, he thought it proper to hasten home.... 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 hastened home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 Seiten
...he received 20 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...because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, 25 and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. Thev are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster;... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 Seiten
...no wise man will consider in itself as disgraceful ". >"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 hastened home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 Seiten
...he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. 30 Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism iIf ' l a private boarding-schoo1. This is the period of his life from which allliis biographers seem... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 Seiten
...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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