...acts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, That soul grows spotted by contagion, I in bodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.. . ^ u This fine doctrine of Plato he goes on with, as you know, to account for the unwillingness of...

...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...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 loath to...

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...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 soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodics, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those...

...— • a " 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 the body that it loved." iiVhich idea seems to him so little absurd, that it inspired him with that rapture in the well-known...

...ware, partly by carrying on a petty trade of various • "Such arc those thick and gloomy shadows damp. Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To * degenerate and degraded...

...That she which marries you must marry me* Shakspeare. The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodiei and imbrutes ; 'till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Milton. Never since created man Met such imbodied force, as named with these, Could merit more than...

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...lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 465 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. 449 freez'd] Dante Inferno, c. ix. Che se '1 Gorgon si mosti a. 455 liveried] Nabbes's Microeosmus,...

...lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 465 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...vaults, and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To...