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,... The Lives of the English Poets - الصفحة 66بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 420عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...degree of merriment on great promifes 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-fchodl. This is the period of his... | |
| 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...fume degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who battens home, becaufe his 'countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boaiding fchool.' What the Doctor finds to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...degree of merriment on great promifes and final! performance, --dh. the man who -haftens home, be'ca'ufe -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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fccne of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private board ing-fchool. This is the period of his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes and Imall 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... | |
| William Hayley - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...degree of merriment on great promifes 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 , vapors away his patriotifm " inj a private boarding-fchool. " To excite merriment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...fome degree of merriment on great promifes 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises artd small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen...contending for their liberty, and when he reaches t'.ic scene of action, Vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schoolThis is the period of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...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... | |
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