 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 11by John Milton - 1917 - 625 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...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...into all seemly and generous arts and affairs."— P. Works, vol. I. p. 123. •' Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gcntem." CHAP. IX. Such was the toil... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...country. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayers to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...this must be added industrious and select reading,. * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, William Spurstow. R. steady observation,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...country. " This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...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,...and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must b« added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly arts and affairs... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit that can enrici) with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compast, I... | |
 | Henry Kaye Bonney - 1815 - 422 pages
...siren " daughters ; but by devout prayer to that " eternal spirit, who can enrich with all ut" terance and knowledge, and sends out his " Seraphim with the...lips of whom " he pleases ; to this must be added indus" trious and select reading, steady observa" tion, insight into all seemly and generous " arts... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...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...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...country. " This," says he, " is " not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and...be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight into all seemly and gene" rous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure... | |
 | Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 pages
...the Muse's lyre ; * " This is not to be obtaiped, but by devout prayer, to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases !" When we compare these humble effusions of the soul, and consider that they proceed from the authors... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much beforehand; but that I trust hereby to make... | |
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