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,... The Lives of the English Poets - Page 66by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 lehteFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 lehte
...degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, 'becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchodl. This is the period of his... | |
| 1780 - 596 lehte
...fume degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who battens home, becaufe his 'countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boaiding fchool.' What the Doctor finds to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 lehte
...degree of merriment on great promifes and final! performance, --dh. the man who -haftens home, be'ca'ufe -his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding fchool. this is the period of his... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 lehte
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fccne of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private board ing-fchool. This is the period of his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 lehte
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and Imall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool. This is the period of his... | |
| William Hayley - 1799 - 376 lehte
...degree of merriment on great promifes and " fmall performance; on the man who haftens " home, becaufe his countrymen are contending " for their liberty , and , when he reaches the " fcene of action , vapors away his patriotifm " inj a private boarding-fchool. " To excite merriment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 lehte
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchooL This is the period of his... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 lehte
...for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises artd small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen...contending for their liberty, and when he reaches t'.ic scene of action, Vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schoolThis is the period of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 lehte
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 lehte
...degree of merriment on great protnifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool. This is the period of his... | |
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