I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of... Paradise lost - Página 19por John Milton - 1910Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 páginas
...of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with fire from his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Let him, who would bind his... | |
| 1840 - 274 páginas
...Government," speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, lie says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." WHEK foes the hand of... | |
| 1840 - 530 páginas
...that such a business was not to be entered upon, " without 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." From a feeling like this — at once fervid, pure and rational — we might expect such a work. From... | |
| 1840 - 1078 páginas
...that such a business was not to be entered upon, " without 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." From a feeling like this — at once fervid, pure and rational — we might expect such a work. From... | |
| 1840 - 272 páginas
...writing a poem in the English language, he says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dnmo Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purity the lips of whom ho pleases." WHEN foes the hand of... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 páginas
...be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapour of wine — nor to be attained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters — but by devout prayer...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' " * There was so much Christian meekness, even in Mr. Z '& fervour, that it was impossible not to be... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 páginas
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Cherishing high thoughts such as these, Milton called upon the assaulting soldier, " Lift not thy spear... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 páginas
...youth, or the vapours of wine, nor to be obtained from the invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Again, he thus describes his own appearance and physical qualities ; to which it may be necessary only... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 páginas
...country. " This," says Milton, " is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To *his must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly... | |
| Thomas Jackson - 1841 - 598 páginas
...handmaid to devotion. They were not " obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren sisters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can...seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to purify the lips of whom He pleases." They are perfectly free from all sickly sentimentality, especially... | |
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