 | 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."... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (671), that claim is not made good in his poetry until Paradise Regained. There, Milton petitions for... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit...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 and... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...religious controversy as in the composition of poetry. Since literary genius is the gift of "that eternall Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," the divine calling of the poet provides credentials at least as legitimate as those bestowed by canonical... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
...of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. 74 The closing phrase alludes to the purification of Isaiah, the singeing of his tongue by fire at... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...trencher fury0 of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit...sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar0 to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added industrious and select... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 588 pages
...Mother of the Muses.45 There is an answer to this in Milton, that poetry is not "to be obtain'd by the Invocation of Dame Memory and her Syren daughters,...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge." This is another of the passages in which the Holy Spirit is associated with art, and was quoted by... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...Milton: "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...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... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 pages
...quotation from Milton. Thus we read: "A work of Genius is a Work 'Not to be obtain'd by the Invocation of Memory and her Syren Daughters, but by Devout prayer...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... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - European literature - 2006 - 362 pages
...religious controversy as in the composition of poetry. Since literary genius is the gift of "that eternall Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," the divine calling of the poet provides credentials at least as legitimate as those bestowed by canonical... | |
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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. 
