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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical ... - Page 76
by John Milton - 1809
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 1 x . r,z , to GM 4 Ċ >v % `@ E , p amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

1881 - 792 pages
...payment of what I am now indebted, as being not a work to be ra:sed from the best of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 5

1849 - 788 pages
...hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise: — " 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...
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The Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1850 - 594 pages
...of the qualifications which he regarded as requisite and which he hoped to employ in preparing it: "A work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine ; nor to be obtained of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to...
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Success in Life: The Lawyer

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 184 pages
...of God, rarely bestowed." Yet so conscious was he of the " gift," that he deems himself prepared for 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 amourist, or the trencher...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...nourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I...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 of dame...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I...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 of dame...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 8

1840 - 624 pages
...raised," as Milton says it, " from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; likethose 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...
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The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...doe I think it mame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for fome few yeers yet I may go on truft with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, 'like that which flows at waft from the pen...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 17

1885 - 1102 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...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some rhyming parasite ' — such as Wither in homelier and humbler...
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