 | 1830 - 718 pages
...perhaps with a reference to this very work : — " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youih.or... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 890 pages
...mighty poet discerned and spake of sublimely to the English people, long before it was composed, " as being 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 of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I G0 peu of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming; parasite ; nor to be obtained by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...himself in his second book of the ' Reformation of Church Government, in 1641 :'— " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...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 youth,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...discovery ; and the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...knowing reader, that some few years yet I may go in trust with him toward the payment of that, for which I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which Sows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go in trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work that requires industrious and silent reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...prepared himself for the task he has left on record, while the project was yet but in embryo.—" I do not think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...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 youth, or the vapours of wine ;... | |
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Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted... 
