 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 sider
...divine' which awaited him in the completion of a work. — ' Not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer...sends out His Seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify t'le lips of whom he pleases: — then, amidst the hymns and hallelujahs... | |
 | 1840 - 534 sider
...writing a poem in the English language, he says ; " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer...that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance arid knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 sider
...country. " This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 sider
...country. " This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 sider
...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,...sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." He availed himself of all opportunities to... | |
 | 1832 - 858 sider
...sing — it was because in his own nervous language, " to 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," he added " industrious and select reading,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 sider
...country. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed lircof his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 sider
...obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternall Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. (3:241) Thus in the poem... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 sider
...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 sider
...divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren 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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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... 
