 | 1824 - 624 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 allnirs ; till which in some measure be compassed,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 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 compassed,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...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 compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." Well might Johnson add, that from a promise like... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 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 acts and affairs." The PARADISE LOST, a work which sets its... | |
 | Horace Smith - Wit and humor - 1825 - 360 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 compassed,... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 436 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 compassed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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, I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...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, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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 mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are... | |
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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 seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : to this must... 
