 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sivua
...writings seems to have in mind his own days as a schoolmaster. Thus in the Life of Milton he says : — ' This is the period of his life from which all his...Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 sivua
...degree of merriment on great promifes and " fmall performance; on the man who haftens " home, becaufe his countrymen are contending " for their liberty , and , when he reaches the " fcene of action , vapors away his patriotifm " inj a private boarding-fchool. " To excite merriment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 sivua
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchooL This is the period of his... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 sivua
...for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises artd small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen...contending for their liberty, and when he reaches t'.ic scene of action, Vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schoolThis is the period of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 sivua
...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 - 1806 - 482 sivua
...degree of merriment on great protnifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool. This is the period of his... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sivua
...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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 sivua
...not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and and small performance ; on the man who hastens home,...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." To excite merriment by rendering Milton ridiculous for having preferred the pen to the sword, was an... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sivua
...forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the mau who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the sceneof action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
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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,... 
