 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...Milton's Prose Works, to which all our references arc made. 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. 1 —Vol. 1. p.122. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Education - 1827 - 436 pages
...speak. " This is not to be obtained,' 1 says he," but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Education - 1827 - 490 pages
..." but by 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Education - 1827 - 504 pages
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge,and sends oui his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did tht> poet speak thus of his work? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit which can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 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,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' Vol. I. p. 148. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 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, who can enrich with all utterance and knowlege, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 pages
...the vapors of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Syren daughters,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.* * And chiefly thou O spirit that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pore, Instruct... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 655 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...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1960 - 634 pages
...of poetry is the man, in his own magnificent phrase, of ‘devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire 15 of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' And finally, the Milton of poetry... | |
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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... 
