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" ... 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... "
Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland - Page 13
by Samuel Johnson - 1894
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...altar,- to touch Bnd * purify the lips of whom he pleases. To this must be added, industrious and **!ect reading, steady observation, and insight into all...generous "arts and affairs; till which in some measure be com past, I refuse not to " Wain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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..." arts and affairs; till which in some measure be com past, I refuse not to " sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...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 xcompassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...the hallowed fire of his altar, " to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. " To this must rjp added, industrious and select " reading, steady observation,...which " in some measure be compast, I refuse not to sus" tain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fervid, pious, and rational, might be...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...must be added, industrious and select read' nig, steady observation, and insight into all seemly ' ;md generous arts and affairs ; till which in some ' measure...' expectation.' From a promise like this, at once I'-Tvid, pious, and rational, might he expected the Paradise Lost. He published the same year two more...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...added, industrious and select reading, steady ob" servation, and insight into all seemly and gene't rous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure " be compast, I refuse not to sustain this expecta-- " tion." From a promise like this, at once fervid,. pious, and rational, might be expected...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...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 not...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...p. 388. Ri Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Ncwcomen, William Spnoto*- * fnsc not to sustain this expectation." From a promise like this, at once fenid, pi. ous ami rational, might be expected the Paradise Lost. , He published the same year two...
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