| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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...generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at my own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...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...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. Milton's statements of poetic theory and self-explanation are frequently unsystematic, and appear in... | |
| Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...prayer to that Eternal Spirit" which illumines the mind and purifies the lips of the chosen prophet, by "industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs," and by judicious selection of a subject appropriate to its form which would be "doctrinal... | |
| Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted ... till which in some measure be compast, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them. (CPW 1:820-1) Milton... | |
| John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases: to this must be added industrious and select reading, steddy observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires, till which in some measure... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...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...insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs' (241). Artists so equipped realize, of course, what is 'the main consistence of a true poem, the choice... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar0 to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases; to this must be added...generous arts and affairs; 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... | |
| Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...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 reading, steady observation, and . . . insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compast,... | |
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