| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he " pleafes." • Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he 'f pleafes." Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that a6t of piety fortified his... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 "...to touch and " purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and " select reading, steady observation, a"nd insight into all... | |
| Hannah Adams - Apologetics - 1804 - 398 pages
...to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his feraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes. To this muft be added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady obfervation, and infight into... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer...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... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...vulgar amourBt? or the trencher fury of a rhyming parade; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters: but by devout prayer...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,"* &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit, which pervades these passages, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
..." is not to be obtained but by devout '< prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can eprich VOL. X. Y " with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out "..." to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady observation, and insight into all... | |
| English literature - 1806 - 576 pages
...not to be obtained but by. devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all •iterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious anrl select reading, steady observation and insight into-all seemly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...vol. LXXI. p. 190. " 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... | |
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