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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,... "
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... - Página 85
por Samuel Johnson - 1864
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Obiter Dicta ...: Milton. Pope. Johnson. Burke. The muse of history. Charles ...

Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 páginas
...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...vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school ;' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...
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The Friendship of Books: And Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 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, and,...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Johnson does not explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him;...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4

Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 464 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, and,...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...
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OBITER DICTA

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 páginas
...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...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school;' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...
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Tractate Of Education

John Milton - 1895 - 104 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, and,...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The fair comment on this is that Milton made no great promises, that he never seems to have intended...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 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, and...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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Macaulay's Essay on Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 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, and...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 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, and...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 17

John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 páginas
...with some 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." Milton himself tells us what were the civic...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 17

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 páginas
...look with some merriment on ^reat 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." Milton himself tells us what were the civic...
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