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
| Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pagina’s
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of 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"; but that this observation... | |
| John Page - 1927 - 488 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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-schooHy. 10). His political notions... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pagina’s
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of 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;' but that this observation... | |
| Niels Bøgholm - 1932 - 144 pagina’s
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| Rose Macaulay - 1934 - 152 pagina’s
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| Frede Warburg - 1937 - 78 pagina’s
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| Edgar Johnson - 1937 - 600 pagina’s
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| 1940 - 752 pagina’s
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| Samuel Johnson - 1950 - 972 pagina’s
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| Samuel Johnson - 1955 - 472 pagina’s
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