invocate

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No considerable work was ever composed till its author, like an ancient magician, first retired to the grove, or to the closet, to invocate.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

Celestial powers on you I invocate; You know the chaste affections of my mind, I never did my faith yet violate; Why should my Chloris then be so unkind?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

No considerable work has yet been composed, but its author, like an ancient magician, retired first to the grove or the closet, to invocate his spirits.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote