 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of...  The Works of Wm. Ellery Channing - Page 29de William Ellery Channing - 1835Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all ' utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seru' phim wnh the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch ' and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To ' ihis must be added, industrious and select read' nig, steady observation, and insight into all... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...years yet I niay go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." f Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hal.lowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes : to this muft be added induftrious and feleQ reading, fteady obfervation, infight into all... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, \vho can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom hf pleafes." — Here then we fee, that Milton's invocations of the Divine fpirit were not merely... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend," * * * as " being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...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...altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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...his altar, to touch and purify " the lips of whom he-pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich Avilh all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,"" &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages, and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...devout prayer to that great Being, who is the source of all utterance and knowledge ; and who sendeth out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of fc the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly tc up, as that... | |
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