... 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. - Pągina 93per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| John Milton - 1838 - 518 pągines
...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 tt Stephen Marahall, Edward Calamy, Thomas Ybunjr, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spuratow ; the ' W... | |
| 1839 - 724 pągines
...ostentatious exultation, but with calm confidence, his high opinion of his own powers ; and promises, &c." "From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious,...rational, might be expected the Paradise Lost." " He was eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself, by annexing the dates to his first compositions... | |
| 1839 - 882 pągines
...calm coDlidence, his high opinion of bis own powers ; and promises, &c." " From a promise like tbis, at once fervid, pious, and rational, might be expected the Paradise Lost." " He was eminently skilled in the Latin tongue ; and he himself, by annexing the dates to his first compositions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pągines
...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,... | |
| 632 pągines
...touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select rending, steady observation; and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs. This great object bounded the spiritual horizon of his mind. It never was entirely absent froin bis... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pągines
...and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, Johnson Hi' published the same year two more pamphlets, upon the same question. To one of his • Johneondid... | |
| 1844 - 671 pągines
...invaluable impressions. He mentions among the requisites for the great work he eo long meditated, " a steady observation and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ;"' and was contented to live with great economy to atone for his expensive " voyaging about." It has... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pągines
...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 accomplished, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pągines
...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. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much beforehand; but that I trust hereby to make... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pągines
...enriched with " all utterance and knowledge," and to this was " added industrious and select reading, steady observation and insight into all seemly and generous arts, and affairs," and if he was not a born-poet, still greater praise is due to him, for the heat of his mind is such... | |
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