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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, vapours... "
Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt - Pagina 19
door Samuel Johnson - 1854
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John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an ...

Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 pagina’s
...therefore hastened home from the continent to take part in the national struggle for freedom, says: " Let not our veneration for MILTON forbid us to look,...on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism...
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John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an ...

Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 pagina’s
...therefore hastened home from the continent to take part in the national struggle for freedom, says : " Let not our veneration for MILTON forbid us to look,...performance ; on the man who hastens home because his contrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the ecene of action, vapours away...
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John Milton, His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an ...

Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 316 pagina’s
...therefore hastened home from the continent to take part in the national struggle for freedom, says : " Let not our veneration for MILTON forbid us to look,...and small performance ; on the man who hastens home localise his contrymen were contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action,...
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Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pagina’s
...that he might avoid the noise of the street Here he received more (POTS to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...in a private boarding-school. This is the period of hi» life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Mihon should...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 158-159

1835 - 746 pagina’s
...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...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.' Cowper. ' O spite ! ' Johnson. — ' His father was alive ; his allowance was not ample, and he supplied...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 158

1835 - 742 pagina’s
...written with the common but childish imitation of Pastoral Life.' Cowper. ' Is that all ?' Johnson. — ' Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performances : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty,...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pagina’s
...did not take an active part in the first movements of the revolution. On this subject Johnson says, " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty,...
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Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Bacon to Leibnitz

1838 - 542 pagina’s
...in a sneer which is too injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pagina’s
...street. Here he received more bovs to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for M ilton e history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by event »•ho hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...that he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some decree of merriment on great promises and small performance ; on the man who hastens home, because...
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