 | Thomas Jackson - 1841 - 598 pagina’s
...handmaid to devotion. They were not " obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren sisters, 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 purify the lips of whom... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pagina’s
...their appeals for help, exclaim, ' But our eyes are up to God, and our expectation is from Him.' ' Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and who sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar to touch and purify the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pagina’s
...which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | 1842 - 542 pagina’s
...sacred poem, " a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, nor to be obtained by the invocation to Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer...eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the hallowed fire from His altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pagina’s
...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 Memory...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... | |
 | William Blake - 1893 - 456 pagina’s
...III.) Blake : Awork of genius is awork "not to be obtained by the invocation of memory, and her syren 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... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pagina’s
...Corinthians 6 : 16: "the temple of God," "the temple of the Holy Ghost." Milton's invocations are a "devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge" (3 :241), and most attempts to define his muse and Spirit more precisely have been largely... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 pagina’s
...Discourses, he wrote: A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtained 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... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pagina’s
...DISCOURSE 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... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 pagina’s
...in the Defence, Milton finds the logic of divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit." 78 In Paradise Regained (1671), Milton adds a fourth temptation to the biblical account of Jesus in... | |
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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... 
