 | 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
...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...public civility; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tune— * * * * a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...industrious and silent reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts ; and as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren daughters ; but by devout prayer... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 pages
...then gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work, "a work," he says — "Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her eiren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
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