 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,...  Lives of English poets - Pagina 96door Samuel Johnson - 1801Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 396 pagina’s
...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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 418 pagina’s
...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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pagina’s
...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 away his patriotism in a private boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pagina’s
...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 away his patriotism in a private boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pagina’s
...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 away his patriotism in a private boardingschool." It is not true that Milton... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pagina’s
...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 performance vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." It is even more marvellous... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pagina’s
...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 away his patriotism in a private boardingschool." This unworthy sneer is easily... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pagina’s
...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 vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding school." The " great promises" consisted... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 pagina’s
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performances : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours out his patriotism, in a private boarding-school.' " " Truly," replied Mr... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pagina’s
...pupils ; and this occupation has drawn on him Jonson's ridicule, as "a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Milton's controversial... | |
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