 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
 | United States - 1840 - 624 pages
...raised," as Milton says it, " from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; likethose 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 1102 pages
...from the prose of Milton to illustrate his less exalted verse : for indeed this poem is at least ' 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 some rhyming parasite ' — such as Wither in homelier and humbler... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 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... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...had echoed in the prelude to Nat — that the poem he hoped to write would be 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 Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...in the Defence, Milton finds the logic of divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit." 78 In Paradise Regained (1671), Milton adds a fourth temptation to the biblical account of Jesus in... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 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 Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...pleasant though they were rugged and difficult indeed' (239). Poetry thus delightful and didactic is 'not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 382 pages
...in the Defence, Milton finds the logic of divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit."78 In Paradise Regained (1671), Milton adds a fourth temptation to the biblical account of... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
...formulation on the matter of memory and inspiration in The Reason of Church Governmentwhere he speaks of 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... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 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 fury0 of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... | |
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