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
| 1817 - 650 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 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. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 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...lips " of whom he pleases. To this must be added, indus" trious and select reading, steady observation, and in"' sight into all seemly and generous arts... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...to say, that this thing can only be done ' by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.'! Here we have nearly the argument and invocation of Paradise Lost; and perhaps it is not unworthy of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 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...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 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...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once * Stephen Marshall,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 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." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he be.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." His poetry, too, fails in the sweet, earnest, heart-tempered declamation of Cowper. Too much of the... | |
| 1835 - 564 Seiten
..." 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 pleases," he might " perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let die."... | |
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