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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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Success in Life: The Lawyer

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 184 pages
...youth, or the vapors 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...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her seven daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...reader, that for some 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...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 syren...
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 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...
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...that for xoms 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, like that whieh flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the treneher fury of a rhyming parasite...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 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...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 syren...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...years yet, I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted (an heroic poem,) 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...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 108, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...former occurs the celebrated passage in which he announces his intention of writing a Heroic Poem, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but...
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Milton's Poetical Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...former occurs the celebrated passage in which he announces his intention of writing a Heroic Poem, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ^ but...
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...that, for some few years yet, I may goon 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...
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Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character

James Smith - 1853 - 448 pages
...come," he says, " I may go on trust with the reader, 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame...
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