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
| Christian life - 1838 - 594 pages
...Milton has more beautifully embodied the same sentiment, ' 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.' When the period of... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1838 - 604 pages
...Milton has more beautifully embodied the same sentiment, ' 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 essenop, Till all be made immortal.' When the period of... | |
| Old maids - 1835 - 246 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,... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American fiction - 1836 - 222 pages
...sung their wonders on a seraph's harp — sweetly says, — ' So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heav'nly 'habitants Begin to cast a beam on tli' outward shape, (The unpolluted temple of the mind)... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...dashed 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...solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can heu; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - American fiction - 1836 - 232 pages
...' So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a spul is found sincerely so, A thousand livened angels lackey her— Driving far off each thing of...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)... | |
| Member of the bar - English orations - 1836 - 560 pages
...Chastity, That when a soul ia found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angela lackey her, Driving far nil' each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till ofl converse with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1837 - 624 pages
...have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture : " So dear to heaven u 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." 3s " Era tanto," says... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1838 - 564 pages
...have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture. " So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far oft" each thing of sin and gnilt, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no... | |
| Elizabeth Ritchie - Biography - 1838 - 194 pages
...seems to involve pollution, save to a soul endowed with heavenly grace, of which it may be said, " A thousand liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt." We would not expose confiding youth to the influence of the company and conversation of evil men, nor... | |
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