 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...promises to undertake something;, he yet knows not what, that may be of use and honour to his toaniry. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout...that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and * tends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar,- to touch Bnd * purify the lips of whom... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 páginas
...the invocation of 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. MILTON, No species of poetry, perhaps, is more difficult of execution than the religious ; the natural... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 páginas
...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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," 6 £c. We .must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit, which pervades these passages,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 páginas
...somc.lting, he yet knows not what, that may be of use and honor to his country. ' This,' sayi lie, ' is not to be obtained but by devout prayer " to that...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...whereof goes under the name of James Lord Bishop of Armagh. I have transcribed this title to shew, by his contemptuous mention of Usher, that he had...his altar, to touch and purify " the lips of whom he-pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...undertake something he yet knows not what, that may be of use and honour to his country. " This," saji he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to...and knowledge, and sends out -his Seraphim, with the halloaed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this mn't be added,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...manners. His next work was, The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy, by Mr. John Miiton, 1642. In this book he discovers, not with ostentatious...Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowiedge, and sends out his seraphim, with the haiiowe'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 páginas
...caught th' ethereal fire, That beam'd refulgent from the Muse's lyre ; * " This is not to be obtaiped, but by devout prayer, to that Eternal Spirit, that...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases !" When we compare these humble effusions of the soul, and consider that they proceed from the authors... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...then proceeds to say, that this thing can only be done ' by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 páginas
...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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." His poetry, too, fails in the sweet, earnest, heart-tempered declamation of Cowper. Too much of the... | |
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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. 
