| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...same passage, which we quoted in a note upon the Paradise Lost, i. 1 7- — " that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
| Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1824 - 396 pages
...the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.'"* There was so much Christian meekness, even in Mr. Z 's fervour, that it was impossible not to be touched... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...to touch and purify the lips " of whom he pleases," p. 6l. edit. 1738. 19- Instruct me, forThou know'st;] Theocrit. Idyll, xxii. 116. Ei« 3t«, ffa yx(... | |
| Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...he may be able to leave something so written, to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let die. This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout...observation, and insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs." The PARADISE LOST, a work which sets its author above all modern Epic writers, and... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at... | |
| Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 432 pages
...the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...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... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at... | |
| Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...Invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs." Mr. Hayley therefore may be justified in his... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich \vith all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim,...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at... | |
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