 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 Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of...  Once Upon a Time - Page 246by Charles Knight - 1854Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...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 of youth or...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...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...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 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...vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming 94 parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " 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 rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " 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 rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. "A work not to be raised from the beat of youtl., or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or thf trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 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 vapors of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...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 of Church Government," &c. Vol. I. pp. 137,... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...heaven ;" and Milton did not believe that poetry was 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 fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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...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... | |
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