 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.  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 406by Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 pages
...be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapour of wine — nor to be obtained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. MILTON, No species of poetry, perhaps, is more difficult of execution than the religious ; the natural... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 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 observation, a"nd insight into all... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained Jby the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters...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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourBt? or the trencher fury of a rhyming parade; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...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 - 1806 - 336 pages
..." is not to be obtained but by devout '< prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can eprich VOL. X. Y " with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out "..." to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady observation, and insight into all... | |
 | 1806 - 576 pages
...not to be obtained but by. devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all •iterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious anrl select reading, steady observation and insight into-all seemly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...vol. LXXI. p. 190. " 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 began... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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,...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... | |
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