 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 : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk ; But most by lewd and lavish act of...  Miltoni Comus - Page 58by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...immortal: but when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose 7'he divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp. Oft seen in... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...ininiortafaf*l>iit when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose^jcstures, and foul talk, But most 07 lewd and lavish act hee Oft seen in channel vaults and sepulchres 471 Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave, As loth to... | |
 | Plutarch - 1821 - 358 pages
...same comparison ; for which, however, he is indebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch. The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charn«I vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new made grave, As loath to... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...difficulty. Milton seems to have had an eye to this passage, when he wrote those fine lines in Comus — The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in enamel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...he wrote those fine lines in Comus— The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutcs, till she quite lose The divine property of her first...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in chamel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and irnbrutes, till she quite lose The divine properly of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 502 pages
...comparison ; for which, however, he is tndebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch : — The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnal vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...: but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave. As loth to leave... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 388 pages
...uses the same comparison : The lavish act of sin .* in defilement to the inward parts. The soul growl clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...: But when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures^ and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave, As loath (o leave... | |
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