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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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People's Edition of the Entire Works of W. E. Channing, Volume 1

William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 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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The Select Works of Mrs. Ellis: Comprising the Women of England, Wives of ...

Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...they will then aрpenr to all men ensy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. -, A work not to be raised from the heat of youth. or the vapours of wine ; like thst which flows et wiMte from the pen of sorne vulgar amourist, or the trencher ftiry of a chyming...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...forwards by a holy enthusiasm to the achievement of a great work. For thus Milton proposed to himself 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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The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life ...

Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...they will thfn 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 the vapours of wine ; like that which flowi at waste from the pen of some volgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor...
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Payne's universum, or pictorial world: engravings of ..., Issue 107, Volume 3

Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...and difficult indeed " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I arn now indebted" (alluding most probably to his Paradise Lost) ; " as being a work not to be raised...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame ir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not 1 may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...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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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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...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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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 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...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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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...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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