 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 154 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 when he reaches the scene fif action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1920 - 258 páginas
...With some degree of merriment ' the unfriendly Johnson comments ' on a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and,...vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school ' (Dr. Johnson, Works, ix. 95). 256. Umbrage, vide note 52 where Umbrage may mean shade in the sense... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 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 Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 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. ' ' What the Doctor finds to excite merriment we own ourselves ignorant of. Whatever might be Milton's... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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. ' ' What the Doctor finds to excite merriment we own ourselves ignorant of. Whatever... | |
 | John Page - 1927 - 488 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...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schooHy. 10). His political notions were those of an acrimonious and surly Republican, for... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 páginas
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man 'who hastens home because member alleged, the Lord Chancellor, loath to have...wholly to depend upon himself, there openly asked but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 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,...vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school . . . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber-milliner, and measured... | |
 | Ann Messenger - 1986 - 208 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. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink"... | |
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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,... 
