| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 sivua
...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...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 sivua
...more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forhid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance;...This is the period of his life from which all his hiographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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 schoolmaster ; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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,...reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism f in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem... | |
| 1833 - 504 sivua
...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...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 the... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 sivua
...hastens home because his contrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the ecene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private...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... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 314 sivua
...national struggle for freedom, says : " 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 contrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 316 sivua
...national struggle for freedom, says : " 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 localise his contrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 sivua
...more (POTS 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,...in a private boarding-school. This is the period of hi» life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Mihon should... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 sivua
...that he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism...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... | |
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