| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 páginas
...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 out his...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...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 out his...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 páginas
...of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 páginas
...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 out his...expectation.' From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious, and rational, might be expected the ' Paradise Lost.' He published the same year two more pamphlets,... | |
| 1854 - 1112 páginas
...seemly and generous arts and affairs," "but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His...to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases." You will seek Divine help by prayer ; and that which made Milton great, you may confidently hope, will... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 páginas
...of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devput prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his...his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases95," &c. We must surely be struck with that noble and sublime spirit which pervades these passages,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 páginas
...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 out his...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 páginas
...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 out his...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| William Godwin - 1823 - 442 páginas
...Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with the hallow'd fire of his Altar, to touch and purify the lips of...this must be added industrious and select reading, steddy observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires ; till which in some measure... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 páginas
...proceeds : " This is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to the Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, .and sends out his...compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." Well might Johnson add, that from a promise like this, at once fervid, pious, and rational, might be... | |
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