 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory...his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.f order the child," the angel of the Lord answered, " of all that I have said to the woman... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 pages
...flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rbyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and...and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of hit altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he phases." Besides these authorities for the opinion... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." It is needless to give examples from works generally known as those of Mr. Bryant. The following is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...This,' says he, * is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal •Spirit that can enricli with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed,... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...that such a business was not to be entered upon, " without devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." From a feeling like this — at once fervid, pure and rational — we might expect such a work. From... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 530 pages
...that such a business was not to be entered upon, " without devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." From a feeling like this — at once fervid, pure and rational — we might expect such a work. From... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1927 - 954 pages
...Church Government, where it was said that a masterpiece was ' not to be obtained by the invocation of memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer...to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.' In Blake's eyes Reynolds committed the unforgivable sin of taking memory rather than inspiration as... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Milton's statements of poetic theory and self-explanation are frequently... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 456 pages
...liead of Discourse III.) Blake : Awork of genius is awork "not to be obtained by the invocation of memory, and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." — Milton. The following discourse is particularly interesting to blockheads, as it endeavours to... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs' (241). Artists so equipped realize, of course, what is 'the main consistence... | |
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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... 
