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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 109
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The Christian examiner and Church of Ireland magazine

1826 - 518 pages
...reader, that for some years I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, nor the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

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...obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit which can enrich with all utterance and...
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American Tracts

United States - 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...of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the * From the Introduction to the second book of ' The Reason of Church Government,. &c.Vol. I. p. 1 14,...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 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...of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the * From the Introduction to the second book of ' The Reason of Church Government,' &c.Vol. I. p. 1 14,...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...then gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work j ' a work,' he says, 'Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which Hows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...of what I am now indebted, as being a work not- to he raised from the heat of youth, or thevapours 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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 148

Great Britain - 1830 - 716 pages
...towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heal of yomh, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste...of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Syren daughters ; but...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 100, Part 2; Volume 148

Early English newspapers - 1830 - 718 pages
...reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youih.or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist,...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...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...obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...mighty poet discerned and spake of sublimely to the English people, long before it was composed, " 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...
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