 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pagina’s
...and a false charge 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pagina’s
...and a false charge 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all . But if he had made... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pagina’s
...and a false charge 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 boardingschool." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pagina’s
...rising sun. It is marvellous that Johnson, with these treatises before him, could have written : — "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...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 pagina’s
...induced by some of his friends to admit their sons to the same privilege. On this Dr. Johnson remarks, "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...his patriotism in a private boardingschool." This unworthy sneer is easily confuted. Milton knew his own intellectual powers too well— even had he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 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...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 pagina’s
...religious and political sentiments, makes the following remarks on the educational labors of our author. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...absence of fifteen months, he returned in haste to England." "Dr Johnson sneeringly remarks," said Frank, "'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,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
