| Susan Glickman - 2000 - 234 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." See Milton's Selected Prose, CA Patrides, ed. (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1974), 59.... | |
| Ian Balfour - 2002 - 372 pages
...prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich 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. 74 The closing phrase alludes to the purification of Isaiah, the singeing of his tongue by... | |
| Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 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" (Prose, 1:82021), imitating the call of Isaiah (6). Such was Milton's passion for fame, justly... | |
| Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 pages
...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. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and . . . insight... | |
| Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pages
...of "that eternall 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," the divine calling of the poet provides credentials at least as legitimate as those bestowed... | |
| Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 pages
...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... | |
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