 | William Landels - Baptists - 1883 - 246 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-house." One is sorry for that... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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 ; ' but that this observation... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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 ;' but that this observation... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 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." Johnson does not explain... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 464 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... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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;' but that this observation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 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 - 1894 - 196 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 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." Again, Milton's pamphlets... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 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." Again, Milton's pamphlets... | |
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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,... 
