| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...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... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...treatise, called " The Reason of Church-government urged against Prelacy," in which he "thinks it no shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years he might go on trust with him towards the payment of what he was then indebted;" namely, " A work not... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 372 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...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like thal which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher... | |
| 1826 - 518 pages
...it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, nor the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...in which he seems to promise the production of some great poetical work. " * 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 be raised from the heat of youth,... | |
| Great Britain - 1828 - 592 pages
...then gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work j ' a work,' he says, 'Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which Hows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor... | |
| Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few., years } et I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not-... | |
| Great Britain - 1830 - 716 pages
...shame to covenant with my knowing reader that for some few years yet 1 may go on trusl with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heal of yomh, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist,... | |
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