 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
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 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 boarding-school . . . He did not sell literature... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 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 boarding school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Harriet Kramer Linkin, Stephen C. Behrendt - 1999 - 312 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 boarding-school." 13. W. Wordsworth, Letters,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 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 boarding-school.'3 Johnson had no sympathy... | |
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