 | 1847 - 662 páginas
...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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.' The passage is as false as it is malicious.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 páginas
...[•romises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen arc contcndingfor L^L 2 ma private boarding-school. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined... | |
 | 1845 - 570 páginas
...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance: on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty ;...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milion had made " great promises," on any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | 1846 - 396 páginas
...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance: on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty ;...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," on any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 páginas
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performances ; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and,...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The passage is as false as it is malicious. Milton did not promise to come home and put himself at... | |
 | Short memoirs - 1847 - 170 páginas
...promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action,...patriotism in a private boarding-school. " This," he continues, " is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 páginas
...merriment on great promises and small performance : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and when he reaches...his patriotism in a private boardingschool," This unworthy sneer is easily confuted. Milton knew his own intellectual powers too well — even had he... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 páginas
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performance ; on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and...that Milton should be degraded to a school-master — which no wise man will consider in itself disgraceful." It is painful to contemplate, in such evidences... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 páginas
...promises and small performance, on the man who hasteas home because his countrymen are contending for liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school. "This," be continues, "is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem... | |
 | 1853 - 530 páginas
...some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty ;...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made "great promises," or any promises at all. But if he had made the... | |
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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,... 
