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... Paradise Lost - Page 21by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...will then 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 flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. 16. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...fore-dated discovery ; and the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ; nor to be obtained by the invocations of Dame Memory and her seven daughters ; but... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...spirit that none shall, 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...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist; or the trencher... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...poet's office, Milton goes on in a prophetic mood to covenant for the production, after some years, of " a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...cause them to be read till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight. PARADISE LOST. A WORK not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Electronic books - 1841 - 918 pages
...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, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 457 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... | |
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