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" 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 38
by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pages
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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...lust with the intrusion into the soul of an incarnate evil: 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 th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...surely is — but we see his lack of experience when he declares: So dear to 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 . . . [453-56] He knows his Plato well and overawes...
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Renaissance Plays: New Readings and Rereadings

Leonard Barkan - Drama - 1985 - 216 pages
...higher knowledge — and as such it rewards a poet amply. The Angels who attend the truly chaste woman "in clear dream and solemn vision / Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear" (11. 457-458). It is a short step from these Angels and such "converse with heav'nly habitants" to...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...that dash't brute violence With sudden adoration, and hlank aw. So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chaslity, 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 deer dream, and solemn vision Tell her...
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John Milton: The Self and the World

John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...victimization occurs frequently. 27. Note also the Elder Brother's "So dear to Heav'n is saintly chastity, / That when a soul is found sincerely so, / A thousand liveried angels lackey her" (ll. 435-55). An article complementary to the present remarks is Irene Tayler's "Say First! What Mov'd...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saindy chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each dung of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can...
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Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress

Judith Yarnall - Circe (Greek mythology) in literature - 1994 - 260 pages
...virginal Diana and Minerva as examples. According to the Brother, this virtue is so dear to heaven That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. . . . Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted...
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Intimate Relations: The Natural History of Desire

Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - Psychology - 1995 - 168 pages
...does so in terms of the conflict between chastity and desire: So dear to 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...
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The Miltonic Moment

J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...practicing the doctrine of abstinence. As the Elder Brother puts it: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th'outward shape, The...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...dashed 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...gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants0 Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns...
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