 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pagina’s
...he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received 20 more boys to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, 25 and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 pagina’s
...", he allows that teaching is " an act which no wise man will consider in itself as disgraceful ". >"Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...promises and small performance — on the man who hastened home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pagina’s
...he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. 30 Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism iIf ' l a private boarding-schoo1. This is the period of his life from which allliis biographers seem... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 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... | |
 | 1847 - 660 pagina’s
...poured all the volume of his collected bile. Take this one passage as a specimen of the whole : — ' 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 154 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...contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene fif action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1920 - 258 pagina’s
...Pattison's Milton, p. 39). ' With some degree of merriment ' the unfriendly Johnson comments ' on a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending...vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school ' (Dr. Johnson, Works, ix. 95). 256. Umbrage, vide note 52 where Umbrage may mean shade in the sense... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pagina’s
...he received more boys to be boarded and instructed." He then breaks off his narrative to exclaim, " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. ' ' What the Doctor finds to excite merriment we own ourselves ignorant of. Whatever might be Milton's... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pagina’s
...he received more boys to be boarded and instructed." He then breaks off his narrative to exclaim, " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding- school. ' ' What the Doctor finds to excite merriment we own ourselves ignorant of. Whatever... | |
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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... 
