 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...; a widely different place, by the way, from what it is at present. Milton became a schoolmaster. " This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster ; but, since it... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 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 performance vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." It is even more marvellous... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1863 - 348 pages
...Street ; a widely different place, by the way, from what it is at present. Milton became a schoolmaster. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster ; but, since it... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 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 boardingschool." This unworthy sneer is easily... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 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 vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding school." The " great promises" consisted... | |
 | John Tomlinson - English poetry - 1869 - 192 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 out his patriotism, in a private boarding-school.' " " Truly," replied Mr... | |
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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,... 
