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The Governess: a repertory of female education - Page 123
by Governess - 1855
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Skirmishes and Sketches

Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 468 pages
...I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine ; . . . . but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may go on trust with him inward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth,...
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American Presbyterian and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 9

Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1865 - 668 pages
...and action. In speaking once of the great life-poem which he hoped ere long to begin, he says : It is 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 amourist, or the trencher...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery 110 free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...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 amourist, or the trencher...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...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 amourist, or the trencher...
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An Introduction to the Study of Milton

John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 pages
...to his design of writing a great poem, and will illustrate this address to the Holy Spirit : — ' Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, . . . nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer...
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Toxophilus

Roger Ascham - Archery - 1868 - 372 pages
...flourish. Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of...
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Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...flourish. Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd...
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An Outline of the History of Christian Literature

George Leopold Hurst - Christian literature - 1926 - 568 pages
...were written is shown by his words in the Reason of Church Government urged against Prelatry, 1641: Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that, for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...
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