Memory and her siren 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 he pleases. The Lives of the English Poets - Seite 69von Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed at mine... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 Seiten
...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 - 1809 - 518 Seiten
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hal.lowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes : to this muft be added induftrious and feleQ reading, fteady obfervation, infight into all... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 472 Seiten
...of dame memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 Seiten
...of dame Memory, and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs."— P. Works, vol. I. p. 123. •' Tantae molis... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 Seiten
...dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich Avilh all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim...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, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...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 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 (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 Seiten
...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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