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" 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 Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 109
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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 vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Syren...
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Poetical Works: Biography of Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...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 be raised from the heat of...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained of dame Memory and her...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...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...of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the peu of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming; parasite ; nor to be obtained by the...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...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...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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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...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 ; nor to be obtained by the invocations of Dame Memory and her seven daughters ; but by devout prayer...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 20

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...portion in life, when he conceived the thought of " a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, nor to be 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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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...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...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 New-York Review, Volume 4

1839 - 538 pages
...poet's office, Milton goes on in a prophetic mood to covenant for the production, after some years, of " a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer...
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The New York Review, Volume 4

Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 pages
...poet's office, Milton goes on in a prophetic mood to covenant for the production, after some years, of " a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rbyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 36

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...describe.' So where he alludes to his immortal work then planned, possibly begun, he describes it as 'not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourant, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the provocation of Dame...
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