| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because holds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place him scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
| Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 544 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...decree 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 boardingschool. This is the period of his... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.' The passage is as false... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 570 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 Milion... | |
| 1846 - 396 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... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 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,... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 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." The passage is as false... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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 school-master — which... | |
| Biography - 1853 - 530 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... | |
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