| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...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...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Sublime and touching is the language in which Milton indignantly repels the charge which his enemies... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...and select reading, steady observation, and insight ihto all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Till which in some measure be accomplished,... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1927 - 954 pages
...the invocation of memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.' In Blake's eyes Reynolds committed the unforgivable sin of taking memory rather than inspiration as... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Milton's statements of poetic theory and self-explanation... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 456 pages
...the invocation of memory, and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." — Milton. The following discourse is particularly interesting to blockheads, as it endeavours to... | |
| 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."... | |
| John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of...this must be added industrious and select reading, steddy observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires, till which in some measure... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs' (241). Artists so equipped realize, of course,... | |
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