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Specimens of the classic poets in a chronolgical series from Homer ..., Volume 2

Specimens - 1814 - 424 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 TULLU8. CYNTHIA'S ensnaring eyes my bondage...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...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 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 a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 5

English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...however obscure, was not extinct. He sighed after nobler occupation, and projected the undertaking of a work " Not to be raised from the heat of youth,...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 Critic: A New Review, Volume 5

English literature - 1816 - 700 pages
...however obscure, was not extinct. He sighed after nobler occupation, and projected the undertaking of a work " Not to be raised from the heat of youth,...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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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
.... 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 be raised from the heat of youth or...parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Danae Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...declara him to be Subtle as sphinx — as sweet and musical As bright Apollo'i lute. ject, " to be raited from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine like...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist,"* but a grave and severe production, more consonant to the character of the poet, and those...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...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 fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...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 be raised from the heat of youth or...the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained-by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devput prayer to that eternal...
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The Enquirer

William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...go on trust 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 wast from the pen of some, vulgar Amprist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite; npr to be obtain'd...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indented ; as being 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 a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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