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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... "
Paradise Lost - Page 21
by John Milton - 1896 - 210 pages
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...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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The Poetry of Life

Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...they will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. i'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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 10

American periodicals - 1846 - 636 pages
...greatest work which the soul of man js capable to perform." And so it is. " A work," says Milton, " not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. 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-fury...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. ounc'd as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, But kerchief d yean yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit cnn flourish. 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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...of prelacy, under whose mquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 1 am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine ;...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...cities, unless he have in 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,...
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The Paradise Lost

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 that Eternal Spirit,...
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