 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 Paradise Lost - Página 8por John Milton - 1850 - 542 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 páginas
...devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with ** the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify " the lips of whom he pleafes. To this muft be ** added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady ob** fervation, and infight... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...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,...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly arts and affaire ; tiU which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...trencher-fury of a rhymmg parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and pu* rify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 páginas
...vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 páginas
...What in me is dark, in the Englifh language, he fays, " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 páginas
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." f Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 páginas
...some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 páginas
...vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory, and her Siren daughters, but by devout...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtain'd by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout...and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added... | |
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