 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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 - 1854 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1855 - 232 pages
...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." But Dr. Johnson, great as... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 240 pages
...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 MR. SMITH S LECTURE. I private boarding-school." But... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors 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,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...education of his nephews, John and Edward Phillips. Dr. Johnson, in his life of (he poet, remarks : " 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 cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 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 schoolmaster; but,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Economics - 1859 - 418 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Value - 1859 - 404 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... | |
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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,... 
