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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 105
by George Burnett - 1807
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...free'leisure will extend. Neither do I think it shame t^ covenant with any knowing reader, that for soL . few years yet, I may go on trust with him toward the...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Danae...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...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, that for some...payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work i ÄS-Ш im Йшй wMdhr flows afr @©ш®" (Bff впшш i ©Í Ваш® Мешигучнйф y &v®«...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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, that for some...the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a Q work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...declara him to be Subtle as sphinx — as sweet and musical As bright Apollo'i lute. ject, " to be raited from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine like...flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist,"* but a grave and severe production, more consonant to the character of the poet, and those high ideas...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 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 Enquirer

William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...can flourish. Neither do 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 at wast from the pen...
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The Philomathic journal, Volume 1

Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...few years he might go on trust with him towards the payment of what he was then indebted;" namely, " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...then gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work, ' a work,' he says, ' Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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