 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 страници
...Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Beaton, 1826," to which all our reference! are made. some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming...obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 страници
...Corinthians 6 : 16: "the temple of God," "the temple of the Holy Ghost." Milton's invocations are a "devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge" (3 :241), and most attempts to define his muse and Spirit more precisely have been largely conjectural.... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 страници
...Discourses, he wrote: A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtained by the Invocation of Memory & her Syren Daughters, but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 страници
...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 the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. (3:241) Thus in the poem... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 страници
...DISCOURSE III A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtaind by the Invocation of Memory & her Syren Daughters, but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 страници
...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 - 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... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 страници
...that held his interest in 'the heat of youth,' Milton appeals instead by devout prayer to that etemall 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 whom he pleases ... (CPW1:820-1) The New... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 страници
...from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor 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 the... | |
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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 frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation... 
