 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.  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 406by Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich \vith all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim,...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... | |
 | 1826 - 518 pages
...daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance, and all knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
 | 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. He accepted... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pages
...14, &c. of Symmons.s edition of Milton.s Prose Works, to which all our references arc made. mvocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' — Vol. I. p. 122. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1827 - 436 pages
...I speak. " This is not to be obtained," says he, " but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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 office,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1827 - 504 pages
..." but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowlede;e,and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his...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 office,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1827 - 488 pages
..." but 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the pott speak thus of his work? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,... | |
 | 1827 - 540 pages
...without private prayer to that Being, " who is the source of all utterance and knowledge, who sendeth the seraphim with the 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. He accepted... | |
 | 1827 - 504 pages
...without private prayer to that Being, " who is the source of all utterance and knowledge, who sendeth the seraphim with the 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. He accepted... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' Vol. I. p. 148. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful... | |
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