 | 1827 - 634 pages
...Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that 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 * From the Introduction to the second book of ' The Reason of Church Government,. &c.Vol. I. p. 1 14,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 580 pages
...or the vapour of wine," as Milton writes, if we quote his words rightly, nor yet " did he obtain it by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance, but by the invocation of memory and her syren daughters." He did not kindle with a bright, and honourable,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 pages
...Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that 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 * From the Introduction to the second book of ' The Reason of Church Government,' &c.Vol. I. p. 1 14,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pages
...of youth, or thevapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to...enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends " But because the spirit of man cannot demean itself lively in this body, without some recreating intermission... | |
 | 1830 - 716 pages
...like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Syren daughters ; but by devout prayer lo that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | 1830 - 718 pages
...not to be raised from the heat of youih.or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Syren daughters ; but... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...themselves for every sermon, as Milton said he must be fitted for the composition of his Divine poem, " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich, with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...Government," speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says ; " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance arid knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | 1833 - 422 pages
...of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to...obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pages
...willingly let die," he must not only exert strenuously his own powers, but look also for assistance to 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 whomsoever... | |
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I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation... 
