...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....

...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...

...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, that, for some...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 ;...

...they will then aрpenr to all men ensy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. -, A work not to be raised from the heat of youth. or the vapours of wine ; like thst which flows et wiMte from the pen of sorne vulgar amourist, or the trencher ftiry of a chyming...

...they will thfn appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flowi at waste from the pen of some volgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor...

...and difficult indeed " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I arn now indebted" (alluding most probably to his Paradise Lost) ; " as being a work not to be raised...

...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame ir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not 1 may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be...

...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who...

...promise of a work which his mind, in the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who...

...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. "A work not to be raised from the beat of youtl., or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or thf trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her...