 ... 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...  Lives of English poets - Page 100by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all ut" terance and knowledge, and fend out his ** feraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, " to touch and purify the lips of whom hs " pleafes." Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...His next work was, The Reafon of Church Government urged againjt Prelacy, by Mr. John Milton, 164.2. In this book he difcovers, not with oftentatious exultation,...pleafes. To this muft be added, " induftrious and fekct reading, fteady obfer" vation, and infight into all feemly and ge" nerous •c nerous arts and... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purifyihe lips of whom he pleases.'' p. 61. 19. Instrufi me, for Thou ini,vi'st ;] Theocrit. Idyl.... | |
 | 1796 - 752 pages
...his country, he adds, " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom lie pleafes." — Here rhtn we fee, that Milton's invocations of «he Divine Spirit were not merely... | |
 | 1796 - 752 pages
...his country, he adds, " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom he pleafes." — Here then we fee, that Milton's invocations of the Divine Spirit were not merely... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...who can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the " hallova'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips " of whom he pleafes." Ver. 14. And in foft filence fhed the kindly fhow'r. Dryden's Don Sebaftian : TSutJhed from Nature... | |
 | William Godwin - 1797 - 508 pages
...Spirit, who can enrich, with all utterance and knowledg, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd Fire of his Altar, to touch and purify the Lips of whom he pleafes : to this tnuft be added induftrious and felect Reading, ftcddy QbfervaEflayXII. §. 3. Miltovand Clarendon.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...invocation of dame Memory " and her firen daughters ; but by devout prayer " to that eternal fpirit , who can enrich with all " utterance and knowledge , and...and purify the lips of whom he pleafes; " to this mufl be added induflrious and felecl " reading , fteady obfervation , infight into all • " feemly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...devout prayer to *" that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and * tends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar,- to touch Bnd * purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and **!ect reading, steady... | |
 | 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 his mind, he... | |
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