... 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 be added industrious and select... The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Pàgina 93per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Edward Bickersteth - 1829 - 738 pàgines
...which in some measure be compassed I refuse not to sustain this expectation.' Dr. Johnson infers, ' From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious, and rational, might be expected the Paradise Lost.' How earnest are David's prayers for divine teaching, through the 119th Psalm. How distinctly the Apostle... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1830 - 368 pàgines
...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, I refuse not to sustain this expectation.' Dr. Johnson infers, ' From a promise like this,... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 pàgines
...of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added select reading, steady observation, and insight into all seemly and...generous arts and affairs, till which in some measure he compassed, I represent to sustain this expectation. ' From a promise like this, says his biographer,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pàgines
...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, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| 1832 - 858 pàgines
...Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," he added " industrious and select reading, steady observation and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs." If Locke and Reid and Stewart have dispelled the darkness that for ages had settled on the human intellect,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 476 pàgines
...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...and rational, might be expected the Paradise Lost. the same question. To one of his antagonists, who affirms that he was vomited out of t/ie university,... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pàgines
...lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and 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... | |
| William Harper - 1836 - 38 pàgines
...added industrious and select reading, steady observation and insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs. Till which in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." In this spirit and with such aspirations we hope that we have formed our society. The objects of human... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and select reading, ual excellence seldom employed to any virtuous purpose....character, as given by Mr. Oldiswortn with all th compassed, I refuse not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pàgines
...lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and 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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