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" 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 toward the payment of what I am now indebted... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 279
1866
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 2

John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 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...what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rais'd from the heat of Youth, or the vapours of Wine; like that which flows at waste from the Pen...
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The Muse in Council: Being Essays on Poets and Poetry

John Drinkwater - Poetry - 1925 - 324 pages
...Church Government urged against Prelatry' of 1641, 'to covenant with any knowing reader that, for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine . . . but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...incomparable. II 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 of...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 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 Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd...
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Stemmen voor waarheid en vrede, Volume 27

Protestants - 1890 - 1284 pages
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The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 6

English Association - Electronic journals - 1927 - 374 pages
...Aldhelm (TLS, 24th Sept.), who points out that the famous promise in The Reason of Church Government of a ' work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ' which ' for some few years yet ' Milton might delay is closely parallel to a passage in Aldhelm's...
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Lectures on English Poets & The Spirit of the Age

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 374 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...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; l;ke that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury ot a rhyming...
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Milton on Education, the Tractate Of Education

John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 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 that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury...
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Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts ...

John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 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 that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury...
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Carlyle's Theory of the Hero: Its Sources, Development, History, and ...

Benjamin Harrison Lehman - Heroes - 1928 - 226 pages
...Compare: 'Neither doe 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 from the pen of some vulgar...
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