 | 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 - 518 pages
...mad'ii it pregnant: What in me is dark, in the Englifh language, he fays, " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters,...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... | |
 | 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, 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
...from the pen of fome vulgar amorift, or the trencher fury of a riming parafite; 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... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 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;...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... | |
 | 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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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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... 
