I am now indebted, as being 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... The Twentieth Century - Page 841885Full view - About this book
| William Godwin - 1823 - 442 pages
...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 of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite; nor to be obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Me. mory and her Siren daughters, but... | |
| 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... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...some few years yet I may go on 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...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters :... | |
| Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 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...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the Invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 484 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...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters; but... | |
| 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... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like thal 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 and her siren daughters, but... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 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 vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher... | |
| 1827 - 634 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 * From the Introduction... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...such a work as after times would not willingly let die. " A work," to use his own eloquent language, " 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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