...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...

...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. This is the period of his life from which...

...degree of merriment on great promises and and small performance ; on the man who hastens home, [because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." To excite merriment by rendering Milton ridiculous for having preferred the pen to the sword, was an...

...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the mau who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the sceneof action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his...

...any thing degrading in the character or employment of a schoolmaster. Dr. Johnson has observed that this is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. Milton himself says, that he hastened home (and his haste, after all, was not great) because he esteemed...

...iu laughing at one, who " hastens home, because his countrymen were contending for their liberties, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." But in, another passage, he acknowledges that this, man of "great promises, and small...

...any thing degrading in the character or employment of a schoolmaster. Dr. Johnson has observed that this is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem .inclined to shrink. Milton himself says, that he hastened home (and his haste, after all, was not gr» at) because he esteemed...

...any thing degrading in the character or employment of a schoolmaster. Dr. Johnson has obsenved that this is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. Milton himself says, that he hastened home (and bis haste, after all, was not great) because be esteemed...

...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,...since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one rinds out that he taught for nothing, and another that his motive was only zeal for the propagation...

...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,...This is the period of his life from which all his hiographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster;...