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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ... - Page 147
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...obtained but by 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...
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 pages
...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. MILTON, No species of poetry, perhaps, is more difficult of execution...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...devout prayer to " that Eternal Spirit that 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. To this must be added, industrious and " select reading, steady...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...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 ; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...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 ; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...obtained but by 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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...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," 6 £c. We .must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can eprich VOL. X. Y " 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. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

1806 - 576 pages
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all •iterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious anrl select reading, steady observation...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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...
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