...tells us that we ought not to allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man " who hastens home because his countrymen are...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school"; but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...

...tells us that we ought not to allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man " who hastens home because his countrymen are...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school"; but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...

...for Milton forbid us to look with samt degree of merriment on great promises and small performances, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-schooHy. 10). His political notions were those of an acrimonious and surly Republican, for...

...tells us that we ought not to 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...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school;' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...

...and free in his conversation to those to whom most severe in his way of education. JOHN AUBREY 1 68 1 Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school . . . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber-milliner, and measured...

...Spoken Against, 23-24. 12.Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 2:408-09. See Johnson, "Milton," 98: "Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." 13. W. Wordsworth, Letters, ed. Hill, 5:699; Cunningham, Everywhere Spoken Against, 86; Barbauld, Address,...

...Johnson is hardly the most sympathetic biographer of Milton, he is perhaps worth listening to here: 'Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.'3 Johnson had no sympathy with Milton's politics; he none the less points accurately...

...that he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received more boys to bo boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...merriment on great promises and small -performance, en the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and when he reaches...