 | Early English newspapers - 1830 - 718 pages
...perhaps with a reference to this very work : — " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youih.or... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...great poetical work, ' a work,' he says — ' 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...mighty poet discerned and spake of sublimely to the English people, long before it was composed, " as being 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...cause them to be read till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight. PARADISE LOST. A WORK not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Syren... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 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...of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the peu of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming; parasite ; nor to be obtained by the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. ' • " 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1835 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...second book of the ' Reformation of Church Government, in 1641 :'— " 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 towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; nor to be obtained by the invocations of Dame Memory and her seven daughters ; but by devout prayer... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...poet's office, Milton goes 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...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame... | |
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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... 
