 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge;" — -and that, " to this," the author did " add industrious and select reading — steady observation...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs," — before he ventured to carry out, and complete, and give to the world, the work which had at first... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs, till which in some measure he compassed, I represent to sustain this expectation. ' From a promise like this, says his biographer,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...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 reading, steady observation,...affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at my own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious, aud rational,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...lips of whom He pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." Here again is another dim foreshadowing of Paradise Lost.... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...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 reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and afl'airs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost,t I refuse not to sustain... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1855 - 620 pages
...the same time with the identity of the intellect, the wonder-working effect of what Milton calls ' industrious and select reading, steady observation,...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs.' A glance at her notes, mottoes, and translations alone, tfill convey the notion of a learning in the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...with the hallowed fire of hia altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom ho pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaire.'' I am convinced that this is the only true account of tho origin of " Paradise Lost" Shakspeare's... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...with the hallowed fire of hi* altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation,...refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as arc not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them. Although it nothing... | |
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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 : to this must... 
