 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...his country, he adds ; " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, \vho can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...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 picales : to this inuti be added induftiious and... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...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 pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...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 pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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" servation, and insight... | |
 | 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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... 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... 
