 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5041830Full view - About this book
 | Ernest Augustus Boyd - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 288 pages
...great epics have been made. Milton objected to poetry which came "from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar enco58 miast, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite" — a dictum which eliminates almost all... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison Lehman - Heroes - 1928 - 226 pages
...the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory Caracteres distinguishes the Great Man from the mere uniformed hero and shows how in the author's opinion... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 374 pages
...now indebted, as being a work not to be 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 parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...toward the payment of what 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 vulgir amourist, or the trencher fury ot a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...payment of what I am now indebted, as being a 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 of a riming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...payment of what I am now indebted, as being a 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 of a riming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 1094 pages
...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 fury of some rhyming parasite ' — such as Wither in homelier and humbler... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...the payment of what 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 Memory... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...Government Milton can claim that inspired wisdom is not to be had "from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to...obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...difficult indeed' (239). Poetry thus delightful and didactic is '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 riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory... | |
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