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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,... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets - Page 92
by Samuel Johnson - 1792
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

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...
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Distinguished men of modern times [selected from The gallery of portraits ...

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...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

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...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

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...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8

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...
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Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 7-9

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...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

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,...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

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...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

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...
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers ..., Volume 2

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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