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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 Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 109
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...heaven ;" and Milton did not believe that poetry was 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 rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of...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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat 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...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 22

Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they would not willingly let die, 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, nor to be obtained...
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The Works of William E. Channing, Volume 1

William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...great poetical work, " a work," he says, — " Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of • From the introduction to the second book of" The Reason of Church Government," &.c. Vol. I. pp....
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...the hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise:—" 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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise: — " 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...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...hour of execution arrived. And as the work was great, so the preparation was great likewise : — " 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...
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(XXX, 387 p.)

William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...great poetical work, "a work," he says, — " Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of * From the introduction to the second book of" The Reason of Church Government," &c. Vol. I. pp. 137,...
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