 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...invocation of dame Memory and her syren 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." Cherishing high thoughts such as these, Milton called upon the assaulting soldier, " Lift not thy spear... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren 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." Again, he thus describes his own appearance and physical qualities ; to which it may be necessary only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...Prelacy, bv Mr. John Milton, 1642." In this book he disco"vers, not with ostentatious exultation, hut with calm confidence, his high opinion of his own...purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be adden, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous... | |
 | 1842 - 630 pages
...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed Greof his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all generous arts and affairs.* The characteristics of Wordsworth's poetry are by no means... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire...observation, and insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs; till which, in some measure, be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...of an effort. 2 A work (Paradise Lost) to be perfected "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." 3 " To shame and silence those men who make genius an apology for vice, and take the sacred fire, kindled... | |
 | 1881 - 396 pages
...let die." Such a work he said, he hoped to produce "by devout prayer to that Eternal 76 Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases." It may here be mentioned that much of Milton's prose is as grand as his poetry. In 1667 " Paradise... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout рreyer to that eternal Spirit, whu can eurich with all utterance and knowledge ; and sends out his...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." This is indeed quoting at great length, but the temptation is great also, lo support with the highest... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." * It is not good versification alone which constitutes poetry in its highest acceptation ; yet Milton's... | |
 | John Waddington - Martyrs - 1844 - 82 pages
...only be prepared to join the noble band of confessors " 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." VL TAKING UP A SOUND POSITION IN A SUDDEN EMERGENCY. AT the request of Daniel, his three companions... | |
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Memory and her siren 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. 
