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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 183
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The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 6

English Association - Electronic journals - 1927 - 374 pages
...Aldhelm (TLS, 24th Sept.), who points out that the famous promise in The Reason of Church Government of a ' work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ' which ' for some few years yet ' Milton might delay is closely parallel to a passage in Aldhelm's...
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Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the Age

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 374 pages
...shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; l;ke that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury ot a rhyming...
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Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts ...

John Milton - Education - 1928 - 408 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...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-fury...
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Milton on Education, the Tractate Of Education

John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 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...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-fury...
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Carlyle's Theory of the Hero: Its Sources, Development, History, and ...

Benjamin Harrison Lehman - Heroes - 1928 - 226 pages
...Compare: 'Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar...
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Carlyle's Theory of the Hero: Its Sources, Development, History, and ...

Benjamin Harrison Lehman - Heroes - 1928 - 226 pages
...go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained...
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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...his life. "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" (CP I, 820). Remaining beholden kept the energies of his "first being" intact. For who covenants with...
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Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...had echoed in the prelude to Nat — that the poem he hoped to write would be a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd...
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Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface

Kevin Dunn - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...future poetry: "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" ( YM 1, 82o).18 The potential reader of Church-Government, however, Puritan or Anglican, would have...
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Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and ...

Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...'eternall Spirit': Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted ... till which in some measure be compast, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this...
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