 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of his...altar, to touch and purify •" the lips of whom he pleafes. To this muft be " added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady ob" fervation, and infight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he " pleafes." • Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he 'f pleafes." Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that a6t of piety fortified his... | |
 | 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 "...into all seemly and generous' " arts and affairs; till which in some measure be com past, I refuse not to " sustain this expectation." From a promise... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1804 - 398 pages
...to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his feraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes. To this muft be added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady obfervation, and infight into... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous .arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be xcompassed at... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...vulgar amourBt? or the trencher fury of a rhyming parade; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters: but by devout prayer...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 "...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady observation, and insight into all " seemly and... | |
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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... 
