...knows not what, that may be of use and honour to his country, he adds; " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can...sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify whom he pleases." — Here then we see, that Milton's invocations As thou...

...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 out his 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...

...This,' says he, * is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit that can eurich 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. To this must be added, industrious and select...

...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, who can enrich with all utterance, and all knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify...

...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 prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich \vith all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar,...

...design, to " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die," with " devout prayer to that' Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge ;" and whether " in the troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes," or, " in the quiet and ( still air 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 prayer...sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.' — Vol. I. p. 122. He then closes with a...

...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 out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Did the poet speak thus of his work ? And...

...invocation of Dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit which can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of hu altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Such was Milton's ideal conception of his...

...or the vapour of wine," as Milton writes, if we quote his words rightly, nor yet " did he obtain it by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance, but by the invocation of memory and her syren daughters." He did not kindle with a bright, and honourable,...