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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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...that for some few years yet I may go on trust witli 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 which Hows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyruin; parasite ; nor...
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Collected Essays & Addresses, 1880-1920, Volume 1

Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...for his great unwritten poem, as " being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapour of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen...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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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Milton

John Milton - 1923 - 332 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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Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays

Heathcote William Garrod - 1923 - 252 pages
...the poetic art to which Milton has given, in The Reason of Church Government, immortal expression : ' 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 Outline of Literature, Volume 2

John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 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 youth or the vapours of wine . . . but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
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The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works

Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1926 - 460 pages
...from the prose of Milton to illustrate his less exalted verse : for indeed this poem is at least ' a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some rhyming parasite ' — such as Wither in homelier and humbler style has branded with no less righteous...
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 2

John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...go on trust with him toward 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...of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming Parasite ; nor to be obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Sir en Daughters, but...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 150

1925 - 806 pages
...of which the dreams of the world's great epics have been made. Milton objected to poetry which came "from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar encomiast, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite" — a dictum which eliminates almost all the...
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An Outline of the History of Christian Literature

George Leopold Hurst - 1926 - 568 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 youth or the vapours of wine .... but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge ....
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Areopagitica and Other Prose Writings by John Milton

John Milton - 1927 - 208 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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