 | Anna Seward - Poets, English - 1810 - 416 pages
...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...Man — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon his return from London, visited Miss Seward, with whom... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of Paradise, Lost : " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...man : if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school for his livelihood. MONTAGUE, Edward Wortley.... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...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...; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.' Such is the taste and spirit of contemporary criticism ; such the admonition with which,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 pages
...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...man ;—if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other. ' Such is the taste and spirit of contemporary criticism ; such the admonition with which,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of " Paradise Lost :" — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...Man: if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school for his livelihood. Dr. Johnson, in his "... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 338 pages
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of the first appearance of " Paradise Lost :" — " The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published...Man: if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." — Poor Milton was obliged to keep school for his livelihood. Dr. Johnson, in his "... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 506 pages
...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...; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon his return from London, visited Miss Seward, with whom... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 500 pages
...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...Man ;—if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other." In summer 1807, the editor, upon his return from London, visited Miss Seward, with whom... | |
 | William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...misjudgment of the celebrated Waller, who speaks thus of 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." which are added a new life of the author, by William Roscoe, Esq. 10... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1829 - 704 pages
...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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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. 
