 ... 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...  Lives of English poets - Pagina 100door Samuel Johnson - 1801Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pagina’s
...his country, he adds ; " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, \vho can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom hf pleafes." — Here then we fee, that Milton's invocations of the Divine fpirit were not merely... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pagina’s
...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 : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge ; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of fc the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly tc up,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pagina’s
...by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich Avilh 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,"" &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pagina’s
...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; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pagina’s
...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; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that " Eternal Spirit that 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. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pagina’s
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and know^ ledge; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lip* of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...by devout prayers to that Eternal Spirit that 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. To this must be added industrious and select reading,. * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...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 lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, * Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas... | |
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