| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...covenant with any knowing reader, that for soL . few years yet, I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...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... | |
| 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... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...that for 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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... | |
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