 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 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 the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as " that it... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 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 " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly " up, as that it... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...country. " This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed tire of his .altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 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,...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 seemly arts... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 520 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,...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 seemly arts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 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...to touch and purify " the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight into all... | |
 | 1816 - 926 pages
...projecting a si-r.lar labour, prepared himself, not " by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit...utterance and • knowledge, and sends out his seraphim witti the hallowed fire of his aliar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases*." A singular... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...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,..." touch and purify the lips of whom he " pleases." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he began... | |
 | Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 pages
...the Muse's lyre; * " This is not to be obtained, but by devout prayer, to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases !" When we compare these humble effusions of the soul, and consider that they proceed from the authors... | |
 | Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with tin: hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.—" When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it has not... | |
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the invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren daughters; but 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... 
