But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her... Comus: A Mask - Page 33by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...4. But when Lust .... Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear ; the headstrong... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...and lavish acts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...lavish act of sin, 4SS Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, 47C Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - Immortality - 1851 - 240 pages
...probable, to animals having the same habits as those they have given themselves up to during life." " Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself,... | |
| Adrien Rouquette - Asceticism - 1852 - 170 pages
...Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imlrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first...shadows damp. Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, enamel vaults and sepulehres 471 Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...lavish act of sin, 4fo Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. 4'9 frea'd] Dante Inferno, c. ix. Che se '1 Gorgon si mostra. 455 iiceried] Nabbes's Microcosmus, p.... | |
| English literature - 1856 - 412 pages
...implies, that the sensual soul is especially prone to-re-appear after death : — " Lingering and Fitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it loved." Compared with Shakspere, this mode of treating the ghost is both ungenial and unjust, but it... | |
| John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave, As loth to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself... | |
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