| Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise : — " 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...whose mquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it yæ4л Ð `% H]|3TX T nE2 jj n T"C̑F % [" ʕK jt" ' 7 Ƶ h:< A C :Q/F [p ܚ GT S E | 1 am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ;... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being not a work to be ra:sed from the best of youth,... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...of the qualifications which he regarded as requisite and which he hoped to employ in preparing it: "A work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine ; nor to be obtained of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to... | |
| Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise: — " 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... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 184 pages
...of God, rarely bestowed." Yet so conscious was he of the " gift," that he deems himself prepared for 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 amourist, or the trencher... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...doe I think it mame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for fome few yeers yet I may go on truft 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 waft from the pen... | |
| John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...of the " Reformation of Chureh Government," in 1641 : — "Neither do I think it shame to eovenant 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 the heat of youth,... | |
| London - London (England) - 1851 - 200 pages
...and 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 the vapours of wine, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...for the task he has left on record, while the project was yet but in embryo.—" I do not think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for...with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted (an heroic poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine;... | |
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