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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... Southern Quarterly Review - Page 74edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 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...of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rbyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...describe.' So where he alludes to his immortal work then planned, possibly begun, he describes it as 'not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourant, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the provocation of Dame... | |
| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 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... | |
| United States - 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... | |
| 632 pages
...at waste from the pen of some vulgar' amorist or the trencher fury df ,-t rhyming phrasite ; nor 10 be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout j>rayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich wiih all utterance and knowledge, rind semis out his... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England) - 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 - Antislavery movements - 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.... | |
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