 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,...  Lives of English poets - Page 96by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...that he might avoid the noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchodl. This is the period of his life from which all his biographers feem inclined •to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...that he might avoid the noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftrudlcd. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...great promifes and fmall performance, on the man who haftcns home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...he received more boys to be boarded and.initructed.' He then breaks off his narrative to. exclaim, * Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to .look...and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home, bccaufe ЬЦ countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action,... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...reprehenfible, either on account of their want of candour, or want of veracity. Page 24. It is thus written : " Let not " our veneration for Milton forbid us to "...with fome degree of merriment " on great promifes and fmail perfor" mances, on the man who haftens home " becaufe his countrymen are contend" ing for their... | |
 | Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...reprehenfible, either on account of their want of candour, or want of veracity. Page 24. It is thus written : " Let not " our veneration for Milton forbid us to "...with fome degree of merriment ".on great promifes and fmail perfor" mances, on the man who haftens home " becaufe his countrymen are contend" ing for their... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...He then breaks off his narrative to. exclaim, ' Let not our veneration for Alilton forbid us to ^ook with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and...performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe hi^ countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of action, vapours... | |
 | 1780 - 596 pages
...breaks off his narrative to exclaim, * Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...Milton forbid us to look with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and final! performance, --dh. the man who -haftens home, be'ca'ufe -his countrymen...of action, 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...that he might avoid the noife of the ftreet. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and inftru&ed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us .to look...with fome degree of merriment on great promifes and frnall performance, on the man who haftens home, becaufe his countrymen are contending for their liberty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 478 pages
...Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with fbme degree of merriment on great promlies and fmall performance, on the man who haftens home,...for their liberty, and, when he reaches the fcene of a&ion, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchool This is the period of. his life from... | |
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