| William Hazlitt - 1818 - Počet stránok 358
...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,...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases: to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - Počet stránok 338
...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,...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases: to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
| George Hardinge - 1818 - Počet stránok 470
...from devout prayer to that ETERNAL, who can enrich with all utterance and with all knowledge—who sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar to purify the lips." In his " Defence for the People of England" he invokes God as the witness of his... | |
| Plutarchus - 1819 - Počet stránok 564
...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,...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases, &c. &c. !' And how keenly does his admirable biographer, Dr. Symmons, comment on ' the very diiierent... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Počet stránok 366
...they were rugged and difficult indeed.'* He then proceeds to say, that this thing can only be done ' by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.'! Here we have nearly the argument and invocation of Paradise Lost; and perhaps it is not unworthy of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 466
...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...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 368
...by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that 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 he pleases." gan the great work of the Rambler. The first number was published on Tuesday, March the 20th, 1750... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - Počet stránok 706
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." His poetry, too, fails in the sweet, earnest, heart-tempered declamation of Cowper. Too much of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - Počet stránok 502
...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...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - Počet stránok 474
...that Eternal Spirit that can enrich " with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Se" raphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and " purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be " added, industrious and select reading, steady observation, " and insight into all... | |
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