 | 1806 - 576 pages
...not to be obtained but by. devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all •iterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious anrl select reading, steady observation and insight into-all seemly... | |
 | 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 act of piety fortified his mind, he began... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...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 ob** fervation, and infight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...David's lyre. But a noble paflage in Milton's Reafon of Church Government is-ftill more appofite ; " By devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, '< who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends «' out his Seraphim, with the baUoiv'dfre of his altar, to ivucli " and purify ike ftps of whom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...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 net of piety fortified his... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...David's lyre. But a noble paflage in Milton's Reafon of Church Government is ftill more appofite ; " By devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit " who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge and fend' •' out his Seraphim, with the hallow'djre of his altar, to touch " and purify the lips of whom... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...which flows at wafte from the pen of fome vulgar amourifr, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parafite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her firen daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...trencher-fury of a rhymmg parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and pu* rify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all ' utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seru' phim wnh the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch ' and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To ' ihis must be added, industrious and select read' nig, steady observation, and insight into all... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be 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... | |
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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. 
