 So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...  British Theatre - Page 34by John Bell - 1791Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...saintly Chastity, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; A thousand liveried angels lackey * her, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants And turns it... | |
 | Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 pages
...and improve the intellectual and moral powers: " Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Milton. Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence Till all be made immortal." Most thankful am I... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no...on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the souls essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things...on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal: but when lust By unchaste... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...gods and men is wound.'" The young Milton believed that "oft convers with heav'nly habitants" might "Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, / The unpolluted temple of the mind" and turn it "by degrees to the souls essence, / Till all be made immortal. . . .""'-' The Platonic... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Drama - 1985 - 216 pages
...higher knowledge — and as such it rewards a poet amply. The Angels who attend the truly chaste woman "in clear dream and solemn vision / Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear" (11. 457-458). It is a short step from these Angels and such "converse with heav'nly habitants" to... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in deer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft convers with heav'nly habitants Begin to casJ a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of... | |
 | Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - Psychology - 1995 - 168 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear . . . As a consequence, the 'unpolluted temple of the mind', is turned 'by degrees to the souls essence'.... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th'outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the souls essence,... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2003 - 388 pages
...Comus, he speaks of the relationship possible between a saintly soul and the angelic guides who . . . in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things...on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal: but when lust Lets... | |
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