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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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets - Page 75
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...his Life of Milton. " Let not onj veneration for Milton," says the great lexicographer, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...their liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding school." The " great promises" consisted in announcements...
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Three Household Poets: Milton, Corrper, Burns Introduction on Poetry and Song

John Tomlinson - English poetry - 1869 - 192 pages
...England." "Dr Johnson sneeringly remarks," said Frank, "'Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performances : on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty,...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...subsequently he received more pupils ; and this occupation has drawn on him Jonson's ridicule, as "a man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Milton's controversial pen, however, soon shewed that his retirement was as actively auxiliary to the...
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The Friendship of Books, and Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1874 - 432 pages
...Churchyard, and took lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...away his patriotism in a private boarding.school." Johnson does not explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him ;...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Teaching - 1876 - 524 pages
...teaching, with the right sort ol youth, would hare produced '• prodigies of wit [mind] and learning." of merriment on great promises and small performance,...liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his life from which...
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English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature

Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 514 pages
...following remarks on the educational labors of our author. " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen arc contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism...
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The Friendship of Books

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...Churchyard, and took lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." Johnson does nflt explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him...
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Education, Volume 49

Education - 1928 - 692 pages
...public employments he opened a school. "Let not our veneration for Milton," mocks Johnson, "forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens 3 George Birkbeck Hill [editorl. Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets," Oxford, 190.ri, Vol. I. The...
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1881 - 570 pages
...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...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private Doarding-school. This is the period of his life from which all biographers seem inclined to shrink....
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ...

John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...any thing degrading in the character or employment of a schoolmaster. Dr. Johnson has observed that this is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. Milton himself says, that he hastened home (and his haste, after all, was not great) because he esteemed...
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