 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 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 some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...work, ' a work,' he says — ' Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, lik' that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...mighty poet discerned and spake of sublimely to the English people, long before it was composed, " 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, or the trencher... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...splendid wit can flourish. 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...of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the peu of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming; parasite ; nor to be obtained by the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...will then 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...waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1835 - 484 pages
...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...waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...power above man's to promise. 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...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; nor to be obtained by the invocations of Dame Memory and her seven daughters ; but by devout prayer... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...free leisure will extend. 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...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... | |
 | 1839 - 538 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...waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren... | |
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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 at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of... 
