 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.  Poetical Works: Biography of Milton - Page 210by John Milton - 1835Full view - About this book
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternall Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout...altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (671), that claim is not made good in his poetry until Paradise Regained. There, Milton petitions for... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...religious controversy as in the composition of poetry. Since literary genius is the gift of "that eternall Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge,...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," the divine calling of the poet provides credentials at least as legitimate as those bestowed by canonical... | |
 | John Lucas - 1998 - 234 pages
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