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" ... 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... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ... - Page 147
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...own powers; and promifes to undertake fomething, he yet knows not what, that may be of ufe and^onour to his country. " This," fays he, " is " not to be...with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom " he pleafes. To this muft be added, " induftrious and felcct reading, fteady...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
..." isr " not to be obtained but by devout " prayer to. that Eternal Spirit that can * '."(. " enrich ^enrich with all utterance and know•' ledge, and...with the hallowed fire of his altar, to "touch and purify the lips of whom " he pleafes. To this muft be added, " induftrious and fclect reading, fteady...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...obtained but " by devour prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can en" rich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out " his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes. To " this muff. be added, induflrious and felett reading, " flcady...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...obtained but " by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can en" rich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out " his Seraphim 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, " fleady...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...obtained but by devout prayer " to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich " with all utterance and knowledge, and fends " out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of " his altar, to touch and purify the lips of " whom he pleafes. To this muft be added, " induftrious and fekct reading, fteady...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purifyihe lips of whom he pleases.'' p. 61. 19. Instrufi me, for Thou ini,vi'st ;] Theocrit. Idyl....
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The British Critic, Volume 7

English literature - 1796 - 752 pages
...obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom lie pleafes." — Here rhtn we fee, that Milton's invocations of «he Divine Spirit were...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 7

1796 - 752 pages
...obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom he pleafes." — Here then we fee, that Milton's invocations of the Divine Spirit were...
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The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise ...

William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...but by devout prayer " to that eternal fpirit , who can enrich with all " utterance and knowledge , and fends out his " Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to " touch and purify the lips of whom he pleafes; " to this mufl be added induflrious and felecl " reading , fteady...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...devout prayer to *" that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and * tends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar,- to touch Bnd * purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and **!ect reading, steady...
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