 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 432 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 " daughters, but by devout "...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 страници
...a poem in the English language, he says, " It was not to be ob" tained by the invocation of " dame Memory and her Siren " daughters, but 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... | |
 | Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 430 страници
...guiding principle, which alone ought to direct the pen ! — how few consider, that, to do good, ' a work is not to be raised from the heat of youth, or...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... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 страници
...rather "by devout prayer to that eternali Spirit who . . . sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (1.820—1). And the notorious "left hand" image, the central evidence for the separatist condemnation,... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 страници
...divine poetry more compelling: he contemplates a work not "to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren 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 - 1993 - 336 страници
...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 - 1993 - 280 страници
...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... | |
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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. 
