| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...noble grace 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,...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - Psychology - 1995 - 168 pages
...danger she faces, and 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... | |
| Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - Great Britain - 1997 - 304 pages
...by guardian angels who both protect and rarefy her: 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 to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. (458-62) In one... | |
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