...invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who 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, insight into all seemly...

...invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleuses.' Vol. I. p. 122. * From tlie Introduction to the second book of ' The Reason for Church Government...

...This,' says he, * is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit that can eurich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out 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 into all seemly...

...dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich \vith all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim,...altar, to 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...

...daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance, and all knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed...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...

...to that Being " who is the source of all utterauce and knowledge, who sendeih the seraphim with tbe hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," he desired that this high dignity, if not already disposed of, should be entrusted to him. He accepted...

...and expectation of the divine help of which I speak. " This is not to be obtained," says he, " but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,...

...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 Milton repeatedly insists on the unique truth of Christian revelation and...

...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,...

...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,...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 Milton...