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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 English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work - Page 137
by Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 536 pages
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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
...his country, he adds, " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...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 not merely...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 7

1796 - 752 pages
...his country, he adds, " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and fends...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 not merely...
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Observations on Pope

Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...who can enrich with all utterance " and knowledge, and fends out his Seraphim, with the " hallova'd fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips " of whom he pleafes." Ver. 14. And in foft filence fhed the kindly fhow'r. Dryden's Don Sebaftian : TSutJhed from Nature...
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The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series ...

William Godwin - Children - 1797 - 508 pages
...Spirit, who can enrich, with all utterance and knowledg, and fends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd Fire of his Altar, to touch and purify the Lips of whom he pleafes : to this tnuft be added induftrious and felect Reading, ftcddy QbfervaEflayXII. §. 3. Miltovand Clarendon....
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The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise ...

William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...invocation of dame Memory " and her firen daughters ; but by devout prayer " to that eternal fpirit , who can enrich with all " utterance and knowledge , and...and purify the lips of whom he pleafes; " to this mufl be added induflrious and felecl " reading , fteady obfervation , infight into all • " feemly...
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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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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...His next work was, The Reafon of Church Government urged again/I Prelacy, by Mr. John Milton, 1642. In this book he difcovers, not with oftentatious exultation,...pleafes. To this muft be " added, induftrious and felect reading, fteady ob" fervation, and infight into all feemly and gene" rous arts and affairs;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he " pleafes." • Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he...
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Life. Poems. Irene, a tragedy

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...that Eternal Spirit " that can enrich with all utterance and " knowledge, and fend out his feraphim " with the hallowed fire of his altar, to " touch and purify the lips of whom he 'f pleafes." Having invoked the fpecial protection of Heaven, and by that a6t of piety fortified his...
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