 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
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 | English periodicals - 1885 - 1102 pages
...from the prose of Milton to illustrate his less exalted verse : for indeed this poem is at least ' 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 amorist, or the trencher... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...sour. In contrast to these nefarious modern practices Milton pledges himself to write a true poem : 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... | |
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