 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 oldal
...Johnson, with these treatises before him, could have written : — "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...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 that... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 oldal
...admit their sons to the same privilege. On this Dr. Johnson remarks, "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...away his patriotism in a private boardingschool." This unworthy sneer is easily confuted. Milton knew his own intellectual powers too well— even had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 oldal
...street. Here he received more boys to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...and small performance, on the man who hastens home be• August, 1639. cause his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and -when he reaches the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 840 oldal
...the following remarks on the educational labors of our author. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...promises and small performance, on the man who hastens Lome, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 oldal
...criticisms in his Life of Milton. " Let not onj veneration for Milton," says the great lexicographer, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding school." The " great promises" consisted in announcements... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 oldal
...haste to England." "Dr Johnson sneeringly remarks," said Frank, "'Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performances : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 oldal
...subsequently he received more pupils ; and this occupation has drawn on him Jonson's ridicule, as "a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Milton's controversial pen, however, soon shewed that his retirement was as actively auxiliary to the... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 oldal
...Churchyard, and took lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...away his patriotism in a private boarding.school." Johnson does not explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him ;... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 oldal
...teaching, with the right sort ol youth, would hare produced '• prodigies of wit [mind] and learning." of merriment on great promises and small performance,...liberty, 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 oldal
...the following remarks on the educational labors of our author. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism... | |
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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,... 
