 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...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... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...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 - 494 pages
...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, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...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 - 1792 - 478 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...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... | |
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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, vapours... 
