 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...choices of conduits. Milton's position is explicit. His work is guided by ''that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send...to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases," and whose assistance is obtained only by "devout prayer."55 If we do not respect the possibility that... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases ... (CPW1:820-1) The New Testament's prayer for the Holy Spirit, which descended on the apostles and... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases: to this must be added industrious and select reading, steddy observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...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 reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...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" (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
...genius is the gift of "that eternall 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," the divine calling of the poet provides credentials at least as legitimate as those bestowed by canonical... | |
 | Susan Glickman - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 234 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." See Milton's Selected Prose, CA Patrides, ed. (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1974), 59. 35 Shelley,... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
...daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich 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. 74 The closing phrase alludes to the purification of Isaiah, the singeing of his tongue by fire at... | |
 | Francis Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 2004 - 161 pages
...Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallow'd fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases" (Prose, 1:82021), imitating the call of Isaiah (6). Such was Milton's passion for fame, justly earned.... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that . . . 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 reading, steady observation, and . . . insight into all... | |
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... 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... 
