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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 199
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...on. trust with him towafds the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rais'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtain'd by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...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...dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout pra} 7 er to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich wilh all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...that for some few years yet 1 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...the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...that for somefew 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...or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at wastj from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained...
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Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 2

Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 422 pages
...sufficient solidity of reflection and constancy of application for a work which Milton speaks of, as " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that, which flows at will from the pen of some vulgar amourist." PROPERTIUS. TO TULLU8. CYNTHIA'S ensnaring eyes my bondage...
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Specimens of the classic poets in a chronolgical series from Homer ..., Volume 2

Specimens - 1814 - 424 pages
...sufficient solidity of reflection and constancy of application for a work which Milton speaks of, as " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that, which flows at will from the pen of some vulgar amourist." . PROPERTIUS. TO TULLU8. CYNTHIA'S ensnaring eyes my bondage...
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The life of the right reverend father in God, Jeremy Taylor, D.D.: chaplain ...

Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...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 that " eternal spirit, who can enrich with all ut*' terance and knowledge, and sends out his " Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his " altar to touch...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 5

1816 - 700 pages
...however obscure, was not extinct. He sighed after nobler occupation, and projected the undertaking of a work " Not to be raised from the heat of youth,...obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can inrich .with all utterance and...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 5

1816 - 700 pages
...however obscure, was not extinct. He sighed after nobler occupation, and projected the undertaking of a work " Not to be raised from the heat of youth,...obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can inrich with all utterance and...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 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...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...
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