 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 pages
...because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school....should be degraded to a school-master ; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 874 pages
...because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he roaches the soene of acfion, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school....inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should bo degraded to a school-master ; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...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 and small performance, on the man who hastens home be• August, 1639. cause his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and -when he reaches the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 840 pages
...the educational labors of our author. " 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 Lome, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...Milton. " Let not onj veneration for Milton," says the great lexicographer, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance,...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... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1869 - 192 pages
...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...liberty, and when he reaches the scene of action, vapours out his patriotism, in a private boarding-school.' " " Truly," replied Mr Benson, " when the mind is... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 pages
...lodgings for his pupils. " Let not," says Johnson, " our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance,...away his patriotism in a private boarding.school." Johnson does not explain exactly what degree of merriment his veneration for Milton permitted him ;... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...the educational labors of our author. " 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 arc contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism... | |
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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,... 
