 | 1898 - 880 pagina’s
...his own generation set him on a ridiculous pedestal, fitly defines his own limits when he writes : " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...on the Fall of Man: if its length be not considered a merit it has no other." He whose writings enshrine and preserve forever all that is noblest and best... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1903 - 344 pagina’s
...merits. Soon after " Paradise Lost " was published, the (then) celebrated poet Waller said of it, " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...the fall of man; if its length be not considered as a merit it hath no other." Pepys in his Memoirs thus speaks of Hudibras, " When I came to read it,... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 pagina’s
...(1608-1674). " The first place among our English poets is due to Milton." — Addison. " The old blind poet hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man. If its length be not considered as a merit it hath no other." — Waller. " Was there ever anything so delightful as the music of ' Paradise... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pagina’s
...the street." There are many ad verse criticisms, however, for Waller says, "The old blind poet has published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man. If its length is not considered a merit, it hath no other. " Dryden too, criticised it very severely, because, although... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1910 - 408 pagina’s
...Paradise Lost " — this, with a contemporary authority in letters like Waller, to say of his work : ' ' The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...on the Fall of Man; if its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other ' ' ; and with, no matter whom, to express the " general feeling of his age... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Hayes - 1917 - 120 pagina’s
...poems which either this age or nation has produced." Waller said, " The old blind schoolmaster has published a tedious poem on the ' Fall of Man.' If...length be not considered as merit, it hath no other." Hume : " It is certain that the author, when in a happy mood and employed on a noble subject, is the... | |
 | 1887 - 980 pagina’s
...the " Paradise Lost." This, with a contemporary authority in letters like Waller to say of his work : "The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...the Fall of Man ; if its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other " ; and with, no matter whom, to express the "general feeling of his age... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1880 - 810 pagina’s
...one respect, for he was a total abstainer) wrote on the first appearance of " Paradise Lost : " — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...the Fall of man ; if its length be not considered a merit, it has no other." age to discover new beauties in the aublimo song, and " the old blind schoolmaster's... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 738 pagina’s
...of Friend Ellwood, the Quaker. Hear what the poet Waller said, in 1C67, of Milton's mighty epic : " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...on the Fall of Man. If its length be not considered a merit, it has no other." For all thy sneers, worthy Master Waller, the blind schoolmaster's poem... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1880 - 810 pagina’s
...one respect, for he was a total abstainer) wrote on the first appearance of "Paradise Lost:"—"The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...on the Fall of man; if its length be not considered a merit, it has no other." Since this sentiment was expressed^it has been the delight of scholars in... | |
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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. 
