...but by Devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance & knowledge & sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch & purify the lips of whom he pleases. MILTON."7 On the one hand, there is an "invocation," on the other,...

...disposition in a nation to controversy is no proof of sedition or degeneracy, but quite the reverse. In speaking of this subject he rises into that inexpressibly...this mighty poet, 'is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the...

...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...