 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn м*ь n +G Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt;...can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...of chaste austerity, And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a...can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things 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... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Elder Brother equates 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...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 of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft convers with heav'nly habitants Begin to casJ a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...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...can hear; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees... | |
 | Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - Psychology - 1995 - 168 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear . . . As a consequence, the 'unpolluted temple of the mind', is turned 'by degrees to the souls essence'.... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...chaste austerity, 450 And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration, and blank awe. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...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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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, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear... 
