 | 1847 - 602 Seiten
...the covenant of his youth, to offer ' high strains in new and lofty measures/ and his devout prayers 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 lips of whom... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 Seiten
...ofa rbyminc parasite; nor u« be obtaJuíd by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren dun^hters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge ; and *mJ» oui his seraphim, with the hallowed fire uf hi* altar, IM touch and purify the lip« uf \\hom... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher-fury and Lincoln syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 Seiten
...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 Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | 1847 - 610 Seiten
...Dame Memory, and her Syren Daughters," can produce but ignoble poetry in comparison to that obtained by " devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance, and sends his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases."... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 Seiten
...Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Beston, 1826," to which all our references are made. some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming...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... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...the design above glanced at was not " to be obtained by the invocation of dame iremory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his •eraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lip* •f whom he pleases."... | |
 | 1848 - 780 Seiten
...themselves for every sermon, as Milton said he must be fitted for the composition of his Divine poem, " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich, with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and... | |
 | 1848 - 792 Seiten
...themselves for every sermon, as Milton said he must be fitted for the composition of his Divine poem, " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich, with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and... | |
 | 1848 - 786 Seiten
...themselves for every sermon, as Milton said he must be fitted for the composition of his Divine poem, " by devout prayer to. that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich, with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and... | |
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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 frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation... 
