 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.  The Living Age - Pagina 1691846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pagina’s
...beautiful allusion to the same passage, which we quoted in a note upon the Paradise Lost, i. 1 7- — " that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." As Mr. Pope's Messiah is formed upon passages taken from the prophet Isaiah, he very properly invocates... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pagina’s
...by devout " prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can earich with all utter" ance and knowledge, ond " sends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of...to touch and purify the lips " of whom he pleases," p. 6l. edit. 1738. 19- Instruct me,forThmiknow'st{} Theocrit. Idyll, xxii. 116. Ki'TI -t'cc, n iy»f... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pagina’s
...he says, "It was not to be ob" tinned by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren " daughters, but by devout " prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can enrich with all utter" ance and knowledge, and " sends out his Seraphim, with '' the hallowed fire of his altar, "... | |
 | Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 432 pagina’s
...or the vapour of wine — nor to be attained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' " * Milton. There was so much Christian meekness, even in Mr Z 's fervour, that it was impossible not... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can...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... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pagina’s
...III A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtaind by the Invocation of Memory & her Syren 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... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...that entity's arrivals and choices of conduits. Milton's position is explicit. His 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... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pagina’s
...man, in his own magnificent phrase, of "devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich withal utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." And finally, the Milton of poetry is, in his own words again, the man of "industrious and select reading."... | |
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