 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...country. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...country. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 pages
...country, he proceeds : " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 pages
...willingly let die. This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...by devout prayer to 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 - 1825 - 514 pages
...by devout prayer to 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... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternall 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. (3:241) Thus in the poem... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...Daughters, but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips of whom he pleases." Milton The following "Discourse" is particularly Interesting... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...rather "by devout prayer to that eternali Spirit who . . . sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (1.820—1). And the notorious "left hand" image, the central evidence for the separatist condemnation,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...work is guided by ''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 whom he pleases," and whose assistance is obtained only by "devout prayer."55 If we do not respect the possibility that... | |
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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. 
