... 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... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 450edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
| 1816 - 700 pages
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can inrich .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." But forgetful of his high calling he still devoted himself to Ae service of the rebellious. Within... | |
| 1816 - 926 pages
...eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and • knowledge, and sends out his seraphim witu the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases*." A singular invocation, — and how singularly rewarded ! — for it proved the consecration-prater... | |
| 1817 - 650 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. — " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it... | |
| 1817 - 650 pages
...Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with tin: hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. — " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 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,...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 generous... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...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...and purify the lips " of whom he pleases. To this must be added, indus" trious and select reading, steady observation, and in"' sight into all seemly... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 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 the lips of whom he pleases.'! Here we have nearly the argument and invocation of Paradise Lost; and perhaps it is not unworthy of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 420 pages
...Spirit that can en. rich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the halloaed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pieases. To this must be added industrious and select rending, * Stephen Marshall, KdmumlCalamy, Thomas... | |
| Plutarchus - 1819 - 564 pages
...devout prayer to Unit Eternal Spirit, who con enrich with all utterance and knowK'dgc, imd Ki'iuls out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch ntnl purify the lips of whom he pleases, &c. &c.\' And how keenly doe* his admirable biographer, Dr.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...thought, with Milton, that this was not to be obtained " but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," gan the great work of the Rambler. The first number was published on Tuesday, March the 20th, 1750... | |
| |