 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, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that...  The Life of John Milton - Page 151by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...doe I think it mame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for fome few yeers yet I may go on truft with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, 'like that which flows at waft from the pen... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...of the " Reformation of Chureh Government," in 1641 : — "Neither do I think it shame to eovenant 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 bo raised from the heat of youth,... | |
 | London - London (England) - 1851 - 200 pages
...and public civility, to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...sooner had than to God's glory by the honour and instruction of my country 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 amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...the task he has left on record, while the project was yet but in embryo.—" I do not think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some...with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted (an heroic poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine;... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...former occurs the celebrated passage in which he announces his intention of writing a Heroic Poem, " 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 riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...former occurs the celebrated passage in which he announces his intention of writing a Heroic Poem, " 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 riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. Neither do 1 think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust witli him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...promise of the " Paradise Lost," twenty years before he actually wrote it. " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some few years yet, I may goon trust with him, toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 1102 pages
...from the prose of Milton to illustrate his less exalted verse : for indeed this poem is at least ' a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some rhyming parasite ' — such as Wither in homelier and humbler... | |
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