...remembered. '• This," says he. " is not to be obtained, but by devout pr.tyer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch -ind purify the lips of whom he pleases." Was Chatham a Genius? And can we have any confidence, that...

...14, &c. of Symmons.s edition of Milton.s Prose Works, to which all our references arc made. mvocation of dame memory and her siren daughters, but by devout...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' — Vol. I. p. 122. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful...

...I speak. " This is not to be obtained," says he, " but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,...

..." but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowlede;e,and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,...

..." but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge,and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the pott speak thus of his work? And shall the divine, or the candidate for the sacred office,...

...some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' Vol. I. p. 148. He then closes with a passage, showing from what principles he forsook these delightful...

...some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Milton's statements of poetic theory and self-explanation are frequently unsystematic, and appear in...

...III.) Blake : Awork of genius is awork "not to be obtained by the invocation of memory, and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." — Milton. The following discourse is particularly interesting to blockheads, as it endeavours to...

...work is guided by ''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 he pleases," and whose assistance is obtained only by "devout prayer."55 If we do not respect the possibility that...

...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."...