Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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
Full view - About this book

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...
Full view - About this book

Poetical Works: Biography of Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 350 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained from the invocation of dame...
Full view - About this book

The Poetry of Life, Volume 2

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 pages
...will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. ' • " 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...
Full view - About this book

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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Wm. Ellery Channing, Volume 1

William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...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...
Full view - About this book

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...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...
Full view - About this book

Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 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...
Full view - About this book

Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - 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...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...
Full view - About this book

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...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
Full view - About this book

The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 36

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF