 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...them — by 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 634 pages
...chains at curfew time. No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt " When her husband was very sick, Alcestis sacrificed her life for his, as the god Apollo had said... | |
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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... 
