 | 1839 - 538 pages
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit,...knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed Jire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he phases." Besides these authorities for the... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 pages
...be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to tit/at eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim icith the hallowed jire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he phases." Besides these... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with fire from his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Let him, who would bind his... | |
 | 1840 - 274 pages
...Government," speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, lie says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." WHEK foes the hand of... | |
 | 1840 - 272 pages
...writing a poem in the English language, he says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dnmo Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purity the lips of whom ho pleases." WHEN foes the hand of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out hie ioned one with honour, who taught him not to spend bis * himselt immediately and vi pitases." Haviiifr invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his... | |
 | 632 pages
...at waste from the pen of some vulgar' amorist or the trencher fury df ,-t rhyming phrasite ; nor 10 be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout j>rayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich wiih all utterance and knowledge, rind semis out his... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1841 - 598 pages
...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...seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to purify the lips of whom He pleases." They are perfectly free from all sickly sentimentality, especially... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pages
...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 lips of whom... | |
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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... 
