 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1910 - 344 pages
...our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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 ;' but that this observation... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 660 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, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.' The passage is as false... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - English literature - 1915 - 346 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." Johnson's veneration permitted... | |
 | John Evelyn - Evelyn family - 1920 - 258 pages
...With some degree of merriment ' the unfriendly Johnson comments ' on a 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 ' (Dr. Johnson, Works, ix.... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 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. ' ' What the Doctor finds... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1923 - 430 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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"; but that this observation... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English essays - 1923 - 430 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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"; but that this observation... | |
 | John Page - Rouen (France) - 1927 - 488 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-schooHy. 10). His political notions... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a 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;' but that this observation... | |
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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,... 
