... 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... The Story of English Literature - Page 248by Anna Buckland - 1882 - 519 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all ' utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seru' phim wnh the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch ' and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To ' ihis must be added, industrious and select read' nig, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
| English literature - 1807 - 570 pages
...be obtained by the invocation ot dame Ыетогу and her siren daughters; but by devout jiraycrlo that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed tire ot his altarlo touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,'... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that 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 pleases." f Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...he fays, " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, \vho can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom hf pleafes." — Here then we fee, that Milton's invocations of the Divine fpirit were not merely... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but by devout pi ¿j er to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of liis altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory, and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich...into all seemly and generous arts and affairs."— P. Works, vol. I. p. 123. •' Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gcntem." CHAP. IX. Such was the toil... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...country. " This," says he, " is " not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and...his altar, to touch and purify " the lips of whom he-pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight... | |
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