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... Miltoni Comus - Page 56by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Edward Taylor - 1840 - 182 pages
...uniformly in the garb of greatness, which filled his mind, " And in clear dream and solemn vision Told him of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Began to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...Heaven 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,...that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1842 - 416 pages
...I look ou her without being reminded of the line.s in Coinus— ' A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till ofl converse with hcav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on Hi" outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...And noble grace, that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence,... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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| Friedrich Schiller - 1843 - 246 pages
...Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is formed sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ;...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Margaret Miller Davidson - 1843 - 716 pages
...of the heavenly influences that minister to virgin innocence — " A thousand liv'ried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ;...that no gross ear can hear : Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey sely wing the region, pan more wise In common, rang'd...Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, hi ofl converse with heavenly habitants 24 25 Begin to cost a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted... | |
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