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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 183
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...under whose inquisitorions and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...prepared himself for the task he has left on record, while the project was yet but in embryo.—" I do not think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted (an heroic poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine;...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. Neither do 1 think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust witli him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat...
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...to give a promise of the " Paradise Lost," twenty years before he actually wrote it. " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some few years yet, I may goon trust with him, toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...sacred devotion to art, literature, and religion, which consecrated the Muse of Milton when it attempted a work " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...extend. Neither do I think k ahaan* ••> covenant with any knowing reader, tlinl for suiur few yean » I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I is. now indebted, M being a work not to ba raised from UK he*: . youth or the vapours of wine : like...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...expresses himself in his second book of the " Reformation of Church Government," in 1641 :— "Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from tho heat of youth,...
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Poems

Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...her, of an ambition of the highest order — a deep religious principle — no more than Milton's ' to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine;' 'nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of whom I am now indebted, 'as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of...
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