 | 1835 - 564 páginas
...labour and intense study" as his portion of life, in the ardent hope that with their assistance, and " by devout prayer to 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 páginas
...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 sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed,... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 páginas
...and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs," "but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can...to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases." You will seek Divine help by prayer ; and that which made Milton great, you may confidently hope, will... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 páginas
...parasite ; nor to be obtained-by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devput prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with...his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases95," &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 páginas
...country. rt 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 sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 páginas
...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 sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast,... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 442 páginas
...Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd fire of his Altar, to touch and purify the lips of...this must be added industrious and select reading, steddy observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires ; till which in some measure... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 páginas
...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." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he began... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 páginas
...from the pen of some, vulgar Amprist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite; npr to be obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternall Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 páginas
...utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hal* See Gent. Mag. vol. LXXI. p. 190. lowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he began... | |
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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 Dame... 
