 The old blind school-master, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.  Footprints on the Road - Página 175por Charles Kent - 1864 - 420 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Anna Seward - 1810 - 416 páginas
...On this subject she used to quote, as a parallel instance of rash judgment, a passage from Waller's Letters. " The old blind school-master, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon his... | |
 | 1822 - 590 páginas
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise, Lost : " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the fall of man : if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 páginas
...and original poets in the language ? And the celebrated Waller also tells one of his friends, that ' the old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the fall of man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.' Such is the taste and spirit of contemporary... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 páginas
...and original poets in the language ? And the celebrated Waller also tells one of his friends, that ' the old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the fall of man ;—if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other. ' Such is the taste and spirit of contemporary... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 páginas
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of " Paradise Lost :" — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man: if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 páginas
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of " Paradise Lost :" — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man: if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 páginas
...On this subject she used to quote, as a parallel instance of rash judgment, a passage from Waller's Letters ;—" The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ;—if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon his... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 506 páginas
...On this subject she used to quote, as a parallel instance of rash judgment, a passage from Waller's Letters ; — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 páginas
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise Lost ; " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath " published a tedious poem on the fall of man; if " its length be not considered a merit, it has no « other." which are added a new life of the author,... | |
 | 1829 - 704 páginas
...We are reminded by association of the opinion which Waller, the poet, early gave of Paradise Lost. " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of J\lan ; if its length he not considered a merit, it has no other." How many " stalled prebends" of... | |
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