 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 strani
...heat of youth, or the vapour of wine — nor to be obtained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit,...sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his alter to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. MILTON. No species of poetry, perhaps, is more... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 strani
...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 "...industrious and " select reading, steady observation, a"nd insight into all seemly and generous' " arts and affairs; till which in some measure be com past,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1804 - 480 strani
...heat of youth, or the vapour of wine — nor to be obtained by the invocation of Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,...altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. MILTON, No species of poetry, perhaps, is more difficult of execution than the religious ; the natural... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 strani
...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,...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 strani
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained Jby the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit,...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be (compassed at mine own peril and cost,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 strani
...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,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," 6 £c. We .must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit, which pervades these passages,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 strani
..." is not to be obtained but by devout '< prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can eprich VOL. X. Y " with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out "...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady observation, and insight into all " seemly and... | |
 | 1806 - 576 strani
...not to be obtained but by. devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, that can enrich with all •iterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the...whom he pleases. To this must be added industrious anrl select reading, steady observation and insight into-all seemly and generous arts and affairs,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 strani
...can flourish. NeitherdoJ think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 strani
...knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 1 am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised...steady observation, insight into all seemly arts and affaire ; tiU which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain... | |
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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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation... 
