 Begin to cast a beam on the 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 looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of...  History of English Literature - Page 438by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...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 looks, loose gestures, and...quite lose The divine property of her first being." 5. One may help one's self greatly in this matter by securing good physical conditions. I have spoken... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. — Shakspere. But when Lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. Milton. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 455 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite -lose The divine property of her first being. 449 freez'd] Dante Inferno, c. ix. Che se '1 Gorgon si mostra. 455 liveried] Nabbes's Mierocosmus,... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the souls essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by leud and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...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 looks, loose gestures, and foul...are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in Charnel vaults and Sepulchers, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Drama - 1985 - 216 pages
...as energetically expressed as is the failure of the ideal. Here, for example, is the Elder Brother: when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish acts of sin interesting. Criticism of Comus often discusses chastity, of course, usually as a theological... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...chastity. The comedy grows hilarious when we imagine the older brother theologizing to the younger: But when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul...till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.3 After seven more lines depicting "carnal sensuality" the younger brother gushes forth his admiration... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...rayes of Chastity, No savage fierce, Bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyl her Virgin purity, 4 but @ . loose The divine property of her first being. OAEL-1; OBS 5 Wherefore did Nature powre her bounties... | |
 | James Turner - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 368 pages
...intelligible relation to the mind. Moreover, moral issues are persistently figured in corporal terms: When lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by leud and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion.... | |
 | Judith Yarnall - Circe (Greek mythology) in literature - 1994 - 260 pages
...that to free the spirit one must renounce the flesh. And what if one does not renounce the flesh, but "by lewd and lavish act of sin, / Lets in defilement to the inward parts"? Then, the Elder Brother asserts, "the soul grows clotted by contagion" (11. 464-66). This image of... | |
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