 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 396 páginas
...heat of youth, 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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.'"* There was so much Christian meekness, even in Mr. Z 's fervour, that it was impossible not to be touched... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 432 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...trencher fury 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...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...country. " This," says he, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the 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, I... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 páginas
...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...industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed,... | |
 | Precept - 1825 - 302 páginas
...willingly let die. 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 acts and affairs." The PARADISE LOST, a work which sets its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 432 páginas
...heat of youth, 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...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 - 1826 - 484 páginas
...trencher fury of some riming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit,...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs." Mr. Hayley therefore may be justified in his opinion, that Milton read,... | |
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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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation... 
