 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 pages
...invocation 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...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... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 pages
...succour, and thought only of addressing myself, as he did, " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." But these, the workings of a diviner inspiration, must not be approached by ordinary minds. What is... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1856 - 426 pages
...invocation 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Who can forget his opening invocation? " But thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer, Before all temples,... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...invocation 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Let him look to his favourite Wordsworth, and see what that career is which befits him who meditates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...inferior tii the prelates in learning." I have transcribed this title to shew, by his comtemptuous mention of Usher, that he had now adopted the puritanical...and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire Hall, bishop ot Norwich, had published an Humble Remonstrance , in defence of episcopacy; to which,... | |
 | 1859 - 918 pages
...announcing that the great achievements of poetry must rest on devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." There is doubtless in the case of Milton, as in that of other great minds, as there ever must be where... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pages
...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...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 and... | |
 | 1859 - 942 pages
...announcing that the great achievements of poetry must rest on devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." There is doubtless in the case of Milton, as in that ot other great minds, as there ever must be where... | |
 | 1859 - 910 pages
...announcing that the great achievements of poetry must rest on devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." There is doubtless in the case of Milton, as in that of other great minds, as there ever must be where... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...not yet what, that may be of use and honour to his country. " This is not to be obtained," he says, "but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit that...hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the life of whom He pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation,... | |
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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. 
