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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,... "
The Lives of the English Poets - Page 66
by Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

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...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

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...
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The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise ...

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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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 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 fcene of action, vapours away his patriotifm in a private boarding-fchooL This is the period of his...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises artd small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen...contending for their liberty, and when he reaches t'.ic scene of action, Vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schoolThis is the period of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 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...This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...degree of merriment on great protnifes 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-fchool. This is the period of his...
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