...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...

...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...

...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 the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...spirit that none 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...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...spirit that none 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...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with hit» toward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat...

...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 invocation of...

...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 vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of * From the introduction to the second book of" The Reason...

...they will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. i'A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...