 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 554 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...of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rbyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pages
...raised," as Milton says it, " from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like those which flow at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or...fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...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 flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but by devout... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 444 pages
...great poetical work, "a work," he says, — " Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of • From the introduction to the second book of" The Reason of Church Government," &c. Vot. I. pp.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1842 - 620 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...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout... | |
 | 1842 - 630 pages
...Olympian struggles : for the work, (') • Not to be raised from the heat of vouth , or l\\c fumes of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen...parasite : nor to be obtained by the invocation of d.imc Memorv and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with... | |
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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, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows... 
