| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...they were rugged and difficult indeed.'* He then proceeds to say, that this thing can only be done ' by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...labour and intense study" as his portion of life, in the ardent hope that with their assistance, and " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who 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... | |
| 1854 - 1112 pages
...and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs," "but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He... | |
| Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...parasite ; nor to be obtained-by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devput prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...from the pen of some, vulgar Amprist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite; npr to be obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternall Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...from the pen of 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;...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, "It was not to be ob" tinned by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can enrich with all utter" ance and knowledge, and " sends out his Seraphim, with '' the hallowed fire of his altar, "... | |
| Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1824 - 396 pages
...be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapour of wine— nor to be attained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, " It was not to be ob" tained by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...by devout " prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can earich with all utter" ance and knowledge, ond " sends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of... | |
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