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The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 44
by John Milton - 1838 - 963 pages
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 pages
...to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go oa trust with him towards 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 that which flows at waste from the pen...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...flourish. Neither do I think itshame 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 he raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at wastj? from the...
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Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 2

Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 438 pages
...sufficient solidity of reflection and constancy of application for a work which Milton speaks of, as " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that, which flows at will from the pen of some vulgar amourist." PROPERTIUS. TO TULLUS. CYNTHIA'S ensnaring eyes my bondage...
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Specimens of the Classic Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 2

Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 422 pages
...sufficient solidity of reflection and constancy of application for a work which Milton speaks of, as " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that, which flows at will from the pen of some vulgar amourist." PROPERTIUS. TO TULLUS. CYNTHIA'S ensnaring eyes my bondage...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...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...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 Memory...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 520 pages
...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...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, tike that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher-fury of a rhyming...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...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...fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...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, as being a Q work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 2

Plutarchus - 1819 - 564 pages
...Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for »orne few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I...fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 706 pages
...sacred devotion to art, literature, and religion, which consecrated the Muse of Milton when it attempted 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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