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" I am now indebted, as being 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 fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... "
The North American Review - Page 504
edited by - 1840
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...A work," to use his own eloquent language, " 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 fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...then gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work,' a work,' he says— 'Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

Great Britain - 1828 - 562 pages
...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 flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...great poetical work ; ' a work,' he says, ' 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 fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the * From the Introduction...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...of what I am now indebted, as being a work not- to he raised from the heat of youth, or thevapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and...
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Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies

William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work, ' a work,' he says — ' Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 148

Great Britain - 1830 - 716 pages
...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, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 100, Part 2; Volume 148

Early English newspapers - 1830 - 718 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...mighty poet discerned and spake of sublimely to the English people, long before it was composed, " as being a work not to be raised from the heat of...flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and...
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