 ... 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 send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5041830Full view - About this book
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 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,...enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends " But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body, without some recreating intermission... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...themselves for every sermon, as Milton said he must be fitted for the composition of his Divine poem, " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich, with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...English language, he says ; " 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 arid knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 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 sends out his seraphim with the hallowed lircof his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1834 - 730 pages
...willingly let die," he must not only exert strenuously his own powers, but look also for assistance to that " Eternal Spirit, who 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 whomsoever... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 pages
...labour and intense study" as his portion of life, in the ardent hope that with their assistance, and " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who 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... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 428 pages
...theme. In the noble language of Milton, we know that the truth in respect to it " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and all knowledge ; " and we are fully aware that our efforts can only be successful as they are guided... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...of youth or the vapours of wine ; nor to be obtained by the invocations of Dame Memory and her seven daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit,...who 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... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and...knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed Jire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he phases." Besides these authorities for the... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1839 - 540 pages
...be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to tit/at eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim icith the hallowed jire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he phases." Besides these... | |
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