 ... 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
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 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 whom he pleases." — Here then we see, that Milton's invocations As thou art wont, my prompted song,... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 pages
...to that Being " who is the source of all utterauce and knowledge, who sendeih the seraphim with tbe hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," he desired that this high dignity, if not already disposed of, should be entrusted to him.... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...devout pr.tyer 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 -ind purify the lips of whom he pleases." Was Chatham a Genius? And can we have any confidence, that... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1827 - 436 pages
...by 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." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1827 - 490 pages
...by 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." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 pages
...but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips of whom he pleases." Milton[.] [Annot. Reynolds; E, p. 635] But, as Blake informs... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. (3:241) Thus in the poem Milton repeatedly insists on the unique truth of Christian revelation... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips of whom he pleases." Milton The following "Discourse" is particularly Interesting... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...rather "by devout prayer to that eternali Spirit who . . . sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (1.820—1). And the notorious "left hand" image, the central evidence for the separatist... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...work is guided by ''that eternal Spirit, who 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," and whose assistance is obtained only by "devout prayer."55 If we do not respect the possibility... | |
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