 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 38by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1822 - 324 pages
...vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begins 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!" Such is the supreme... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand...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... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 426 pages
...that he knows nothing of the ' high mystery' of old maidism. ' 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 guilt and sin : And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration, and blank awe ? So dear to Heav'n is saintly chastity, upplies, That gaily blooms, but ev'n in blooming dies....most our trouble still when most admir'd. And still heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1824 - 378 pages
...3433 07576967 3 NcW Po rter y DUKE CHRISTIAN OF LUNEBURG. VOL. I. So dear to Heaven is saintly purity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand...And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of tilings that no gross car can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants, Begin to cast a beam... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...how Florimel, in danger of That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And...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, 455... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1824 - 1212 pages
... DUKE CHRISTIAN LUNEBURG. VOL. I. So dear to Heaven Is saintly purity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off" p»<-l« thine of *in and guilt : And «n clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...With sudden adoration of her pureneti: this he altered to of bright rayt, and then to and blank awe. 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 clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...dash'd brute violence 455 With sudden adoration, and blank awe ? So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving fat off each thing of sin and guilt, 460 And in clear dream, and solemn vision,... | |
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