| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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