...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, Itnbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those...

...the beautiful paraphrase in Comus of a passage of the Phaedon, says, " The soul grows clotted with contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." And Spenser : " Most gentle spirite breathed from above, Out of the bosome of the Maker's blis, In...

...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of Bin, stood With@ 4 (hick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres 471 Lingering, and sitting...

...The same occurs in these lines of Milton's Comus : — ........ " But when lust, By ..... lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...quite lose The divine property of her first being." J This seems to disagree with the custom ofgivingall good men the name of Osiris immediately after...

...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton,—who, in his Comus, thus sings :— " When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being." —And how graphic, yet how revolting, the description of his own character, before his conversion,...

...32, et seq. Milton says in Comus :— " The soul grows clotted by contagion ; Imbodies and iznbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property 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...

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...: 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...

...: but when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act ho E»rth yield., 74 PARADISE LOST. Variety without...eat'st, thou diest; Death is the penalty imposed ; bewar OH seen in chamel vaults and sepulchres 471 Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to...

...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton, who, in his Comus, thus sings : — " When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being." And how graphic, yet how revolting, the description of his own character, before his conversion, given'...