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" ... 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 pleases... "
American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 450
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends ont his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar,...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and...
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge ; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of fc the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly tc up, as that...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich Avilh 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 pleases,"" &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages, and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that 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-pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" serration, and insight...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Spirit, who can enrich •with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd fire of his altar, to, touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select readiug, steady observation, insight into all seem* Jy and generous...
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The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and know^ ledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lip* of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...by devout prayers to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar,...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading,. * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew...
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Works, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 426 pages
...by devout prayers to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar,...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowiedge, and sends out his seraphim, with the haiiowe'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew...
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Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the First

Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...Seraphim with the Above their frowns and smiles, the lofty page He forms, the wonder of each future age ! hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Johnson's whole account of Milton is a struggle and a conflict between his judgment and his prejudices;...
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