| 1839 - 538 Seiten
...trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; not 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 knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed Jire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 Seiten
...vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her Siren daughters...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with fire from his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases."... | |
| 1840 - 274 Seiten
...speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language, lie says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters,...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases."... | |
| 1840 - 272 Seiten
...writing a poem in the English language, he says ; "It was not to be obtained by the invocation of Dnmo Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer...who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim, with hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purity the lips of whom ho pleases."... | |
| John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 Seiten
...from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters,...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... | |
| William Blake - 1893 - 456 Seiten
...III.) Blake : Awork of genius is awork "not to be obtained by the invocation of memory, and her syren 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... | |
| William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 Seiten
...heavenly Muse of biblical poetry in PL, Milton declares that his future opus is "not to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters,...Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge. ..." A variant on the Siren-Muse parallel also occurs in SolMus where the poet hails the "mixt power"... | |
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 Seiten
...Corinthians 6 : 16: "the temple of God," "the temple of the Holy Ghost." Milton's invocations are a "devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge" (3 :241), and most attempts to define his muse and Spirit more precisely have been largely conjectural.... | |
| Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 Seiten
...Discourses, he wrote: A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtained by the Invocation of Memory & her Syren Daughters, but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips... | |
| Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 Seiten
...DISCOURSE III A Work of Genius is a Work "Not to be obtaind by the Invocation of Memory & her Syren Daughters, but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips... | |
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