 | Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1824 - 396 pages
...be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapour of wine— nor to be attained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer...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... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 432 pages
...or the vapour of wine—nor to be attained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters—but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich...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 - 1824 - 472 pages
...beautiful allusion to the same passage, which we quoted in a note upon the Paradise Lost, i. 1 7- — " that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance...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... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...country, he proceeds : " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, "It was not to be ob" tinned by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can enrich with all utter" ance and knowledge, and " sends out his Seraphim, with '' the hallowed fire of his altar, "... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says, " It was not to be ob" tained by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren "...by devout " prayer to that eternal Spirit " who can earich with all utter" ance and knowledge, ond " sends out his Seraphim, with " the hallowed fire of... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...in the Defence, Milton finds the logic of divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit." 78 In Paradise Regained (1671), Milton adds a fourth temptation to the biblical account of Jesus in... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...that entity's arrivals and choices of conduits. Milton's position is explicit. His work is guided by ''that eternal Spirit, who 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... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...to be finished in the heat of youth or the vapours of wine; nor yet by invocation of Dame Memory & her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who giveth knowledge," hereby he hoped to release in some great measure the hearts of posterity from that... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...man, in his own magnificent phrase, of "devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich withal utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." And finally, the Milton of poetry is, in his own words again, the man of "industrious and select reading."... | |
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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. 
