| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 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... | |
| 1827 - 516 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...vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming 94 parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pages
...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. "A work not to be raised from the beat of youtl., or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or thf trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her... | |
| Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 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 vapors of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 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 * From the introduction to the second book of" The Reason of Church Government," &c. Vol. I. pp. 137,... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...heaven ;" and Milton did not believe that poetry was 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 of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory... | |
| Charles Knight - 1847 - 620 pages
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| Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame... | |
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