| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. Neither do 1 think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust witli him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...promise of the " Paradise Lost," twenty years before he actually wrote it. " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some few years yet, I may goon trust with him, toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...extend. Neither do I think k ahaan* ••> covenant with any knowing reader, tlinl for suiur few yean » I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I is. now indebted, M being a work not to ba raised from UK he*: . youth or the vapours of wine : like... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...in his second book of the " Reformation of Church Government," in 1641 :— "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 towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from tho heat of youth,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...her, of an ambition of the highest order — a deep religious principle — no more than Milton's ' to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine;' 'nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for...yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of whom I am now indebted, 'as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of... | |
| 1856 - 864 pages
...promise of the •• Paradise Lost," twenty years before be actually wrote it. " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some few years yet, I may goon trust with him, toward the payment of what 1 am now indebted, as being « work not to be raised... | |
| Edward Thomson - Education - 1856 - 426 pages
...round " As one great furnace flamed." Intimating his purpose to write- his great poem, he says it is 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... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and 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 T,itn toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat... | |
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