...of the " Reformation of Chureh Government," in 1641 : — "Neither do I think it shame to eovenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from the heat of youth,...

...and public civility, to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to...

...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorions and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. 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...

...prepared himself for the task he has left on record, while the project was yet but in embryo.—" I do not think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted (an heroic poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine;...

...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can nourish. Neither do 1 think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust witli him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat...

...he proceeds to give a promise of the " Paradise Lost," twenty years before he actually wrote it. " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that, for some few years yet, I may goon trust with him, toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised...

...extend. Neither do I think k ahaan* ••> covenant with any knowing reader, tlinl for suiur few yean » I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I is. now indebted, M being a work not to ba raised from UK he*: . youth or the vapours of wine : like...

...sacred devotion to art, literature, and religion, which consecrated the Muse of Milton when it attempted 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...

...thus expresses himself in his second book of the " Reformation of Church Government," in 1641 :— "Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any...for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from tho heat of youth,...

...her, of an ambition of the highest order — a deep religious principle — no more than Milton's ' to be 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...