...that none shall, that I dare almost to aver of myself, so far as life and free leisure shall extend. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that some few years yet I may go in trust with him toward the payment of that for which I am now indebted...

...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 ;...

...they will then aрpenr to all men ensy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. -, A work not to be raised from the heat of youth. or the vapours of wine ; like thst which flows et wiMte from the pen of sorne vulgar amourist, or the trencher ftiry of a chyming...

...they will thfn appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flowi at waste from the pen of some volgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor...

...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Of beauty from the light retir'd ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not 1 may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be...

...and difficult indeed " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I arn now indebted" (alluding most probably to his Paradise Lost) ; " as being a work not to be raised...

...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...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with hit» toward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat...

...cause them to be read till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight. PARADISE LOST. A WORK not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the...

...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. ounc'd as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, But kerchief d yean yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not...

...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit cnn flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...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...