 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 - Sida 66efter Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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