 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism f in a private boarding-school. This is the period of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours 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 ; but,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 314 pages
...liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours 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 school master ; but... | |
 | Biography - 1833 - 504 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Biography - 1833 - 308 pages
...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, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1835 - 746 pages
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performances : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.' Cowper. ' O spite ! ' Johnson.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of 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,... 
