 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...degree of merriment on great promises and 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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." To excite merriment by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...degree of merriment on great promises and small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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 away his patriotism f in a private boarding-school. This is the period of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his... | |
 | Biography - 1833 - 504 pages
...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 away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton... | |
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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,... 
