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 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great [•romises K 0 F CLI K M%N K K K K K M CR S DTCV W K .} L L L L M M M M M M F J F arc contcndingfor their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...which is 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 boarding-school." It is not true that Milion had made " great promises," on any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...which is 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 boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," on any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...hastens home, because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the «cene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private...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 school-master... | |
 | Short memoirs - Celebrities - 1847 - 170 pages
...Dr. Johnson, speaking of this circumstance, says,— " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...hastens home because his countrymen are contending for liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...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...performance ; on the man who hastens home, because IMS countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...kind. Take this one passage as a specimen of the whole. " Let not our veneration 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 are contending for their liberty,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...sons to the same privilege. On this Dr Johnson remarks, " Let not onr veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...on the man who hastens home because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...Dr. Johnson, speaking of this circumstance, 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 hasteas home because his countrymen are contending for liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action,... | |
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