| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...knowing reader, that some few years yet I may go in trust with him toward the payment of that, for which I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which Sows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go in trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work that requires industrious and silent reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 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 ;... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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| John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...they will then aрpenr to all men ensy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. -, A work not to be raised from the heat of youth. or the vapours of wine ; like thst which flows et wiMte from the pen of sorne vulgar amourist, or the trencher ftiry of a chyming... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...they will thfn appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flowi at waste from the pen of some volgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...and difficult indeed " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I arn now indebted" (alluding most probably to his Paradise Lost) ; " as being a work not to be raised... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it ht retir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not 1 may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 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 hit» toward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat... | |
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