 | 1856 - 864 pages
...give a promise of the •• Paradise Lost," twenty years before be 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 1 am now indebted, as being « work not to be raised... | |
 | Edward Thomson - Education - 1856 - 426 pages
...round " As one great furnace flamed." Intimating his purpose to write- his great poem, he says it is 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 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 few years yet I may go on trust with T,itn toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may...youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wasto from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...poet's office, Milton went on in a prophetic mood to covenant for the production, after some years, of a work "not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flowa at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist or the trencherfury of a rhyming parasite, —... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...years yet, I may go on trust 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...of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite; not to be obtained by... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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,...or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at * Assemblies of the people. GOD'S HELP FOR GOD'S WORK. 51 waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. !N either do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward tho payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 468 pages
...perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine ; . . . . but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 461 pages
...perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine ; . . . . but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance... | |
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Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted... 
