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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... "
The North American Review - Page 272
edited by - 1854
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The Christian Observer, Volume 13

Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...sublime effusion of ilie prince of poets. What a contrast thi? to those strains which " flow at w.,1 i,' from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite!" With what a charm does this" divine philosophy" burst upon the mind, after the lowborn minstrelsy too...
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...knelt down, and was returning thanks to hea-- yen for his escape, when suddenly #***** NUMBER XVIII. A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapour of wine — nor to be obtained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters ; but by...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained Jby the invocation of dame...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...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 youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...of what I am now endebted, 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 amourBt? or the trencher fury of a rhyming parade; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now endebted, 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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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 rhymmg parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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 youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1807 - 570 pages
...few years jet Г may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now ¡mlebtcd; аз being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours ot fame, like that which flows at waste from the pen of ьоте vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury...
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