 | Jonathan Richardson - 1734 - 756 pagina’s
...from the Pen of fome Vulgar Amortft, or the Trencher-Fury of a Riming Parafite ; nor to be obtain d by the Invocation of Dame Memory, and her Siren Daughters,...who can enrich with all Utterance and Knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim with the hallow' d Fire of his Altar to Touch and Purify the Lips of whom he... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 666 pagina’s
...Englilh language, he fays, " It was not to be obtained «' by the invocation of Dame Me• • mory and her Siren daughters, •- but by devout prayer...Spirit who can enrich ••' with all utterance and know'• ledge, and fends out his Sera" phim, with the hallow 'd fire of " his altar, to touch and... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 674 pagina’s
...in the Englifti language, he fays, " ft was not to be obtained " by the invocation of Dame Me" mory and her Siren daughters, « but by devout prayer to that " eternal Spirit who can enrich " wkh all utterance and know'• ledge, and fends out his Sera" phim, with the h allow 'd fire of "... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pagina’s
...fpeaking of his defign of writing a poem in theEnglilh language, he &ys, " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters,...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pagina’s
...that Eternal Spirit that can * '."(. " enrich ^enrich with all utterance and know•' ledge, and fends out his Seraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to "touch and purify the lips of whom " he pleafes. To this muft be added, " induftrious and fclect reading, fteady " obfervation, and infight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that " can enrich with all utterance and know" ledge, and fends out his Seraphim with the " hallowed fire of his. altar, to touch and pu** rify the lips of whom he pleafes. To this " muft be added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pagina’s
...devour prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can en" rich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out " his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes. To " this muff. be added, induflrious and felett reading, " flcady obfervation, and iniight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can en" rich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out " his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes. To " this muft be added, induftrious and felect reading, " fleady obfervation, and infight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and ** knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to * { touch and purify the lips of whom he L 2 " pleafe?. ** pleafes. To this muft be added, induftri•* ous and feleŁt reading, fteady obfervation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pagina’s
...that " Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all ut" terance and knowledge, and fend out his ** feraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, " to touch and purify the lips of whom hs " pleafes." Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified... | |
| |
I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame... 
