 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 464 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 boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But, if he had made... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pagina’s
...tells us that we ought not to allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man ' who hastens home because his countrymen are...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school;' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 pagina’s
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pagina’s
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pagina’s
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 120 pagina’s
...Italian Catholicism or Italian morals. Dr. Johnson, in his " Life of Milton," cannot refrain from looking "with some degree of merriment on great promises and...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The fair comment on this is that Milton made no great promises, that he never seems to have intended... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 pagina’s
...received into his house to share in his instructions. Upon this incident Johnson sneeringly remarks: " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some merriment on great promises and small performances ; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 pagina’s
...received into his house to share in his instructions. Upon this incident Johnson sneeringly remarks: " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some merriment on ^reat promises and small performances; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 pagina’s
...hearing of the differences between the king and parliament, he thought it proper to hasten home.... Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...great promises and small performance, on the man who hastened home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene... | |
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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... 
