 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pągines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pągines
...and, when he reaches the fcene of adtion, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers feem inclined to fhrink. They are unwilling that Milton Ihould be degraded to a fchoolmafter; but fince.it... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pągines
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pągines
...recal vagrant inattention, to Simulate fluggifh indifference, and to rectify abiurd mifapprehenfion ' ' This is the period of his life from which all his biographers feem inclined to fhiink. They arc unwilling that Miiron Ihould be degraded to a fchool-mafter; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pągines
...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 - 498 pągines
...and, when he reaches the fcene of attion, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers feem inclined to fhrink. They are unwilling that Milton * This is inaccurately expreficd : Philips,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pągines
...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 - 478 pągines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pągines
...when when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boardingfchool. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers feem inclined to fhrink. They are unwilling that Milton fliould be degraded to a fchool- mafter ; but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pągines
...writings seems to have in mind his own days as a schoolmaster. Thus in the Life of Milton he says : — ' This is the period of his life from which all his...Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that... | |
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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,... 
