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" I am now indented ; 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... "
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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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...that for soL . 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Danae...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...few years yet, I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a Q work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the...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 Dame...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

1820 - 608 pages
...declara him to be Subtle as sphinx — as sweet and musical As bright Apollo'i lute. ject, " to be raited from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine like...flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist,"* but a grave and severe production, more consonant to the character of the poet, and those high ideas...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 582 pages
...the Muse of Milton when it attempted 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...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...
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The Philomathic journal, Volume 1

Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...few years he might go on trust with him towards the payment of what he was then indebted;" namely, " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...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 dame...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, "It was not to be ob" tinned by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can enrich with all utter" ance and knowledge, and " sends out his Seraphim, with '' the hallowed fire of his altar, "...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, " It was not to be ob" tained by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...by devout " prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can earich with all utter" ance and knowledge, ond " sends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like thal which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist,...devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich \vith all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 484 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...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters,...
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived ..., Volume 6

Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...ihatjor 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...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters,...
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