 | 1840 - 534 pages
...Government," speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, he says ; " It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance arid knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the... | |
 | 1833 - 422 pages
...of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 890 pages
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be 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 knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pages
...by every instinct and presage, by strong propensity, and the genial power of nature, to a work ' not to be obtained by the ' invocation of Dame Memory,...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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pages
...willingly let die," he must not only exert strenuously his own powers, but look also for assistance to 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 whomsoever... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 228 pages
...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;...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the peu of some vulgar and Davis and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...theme. In the noble language of Milton, we know that the truth in respect to it " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and all knowledge ; " and we are fully aware that our efforts can only be successful as they are guided... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 pages
...labour and intense study" as his portion of life, in the ardent hope that with their assistance, and " by devout prayer to 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... | |
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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 of... 
