 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...  Comus: A Mask - Page 36by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...whether it be the palace or the hut:— " So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul ia found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey...thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn visiou Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till ofl converse with heavenly habitants Begins... | |
 | John Edward Taylor - 1840 - 182 pages
...uniformly in the garb of greatness, which filled his mind, " And in clear dream and solemn vision Told him of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Began to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turned it by degrees... | |
 | Margaret Miller Davidson, Washington Irving - Women poets, American - 1841 - 388 pages
...description of the heavenly influences that minister to virgin innocence — " A thousand liv'ried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin...on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turn it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal." Of the images and speculations... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Wherewith she freez'd her foes to congeal 'd stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, 450 24 25 In emulaࠊ4 mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, 460 Till all be made immortal : but when Lust,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration, and blank awe 1 So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,...on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turn it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal." Circe — the mother... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - British literature - 1842 - 986 pages
...do I look on her without being reminded of the lines in Comus — ' A thousand liveried angels lucky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt....that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - English fiction - 1842 - 416 pages
...I look ou her without being reminded of the line.s in Coinus— ' A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till ofl converse with hcav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on Hi" outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
 | Margaret Miller Davidson - American poetry - 1843 - 716 pages
...description of the heavenly influences that minister to virgin innocence — " A thousand liv'ried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin...on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turn it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal." Of the images and speculations... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely 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, Till oft converse with... | |
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