 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
 | 1843 - 600 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 soul grows clotted by contagion. I in boilie<> and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being, Such are those... | |
 | 1843 - 172 pages
...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 clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrulcs, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." And how graphic, yet how revolting,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The ssitl grows clotted by contagion, Imtodies, i"1ch are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulehres 47 Lingering,... | |
 | John Smith (of Glasgow.) - 1847 - 342 pages
...immortal: but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foal 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 sepuichres Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave As loth to leave... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, & foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...property of her first being. Such are those thick & gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, ' Lingering, and sitting by a new... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. 4. But when Lust .... Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear ; the headstrong... | |
 | 1847 - 518 pages
...conception which its eternal author taught it to form of his moral character. For in such savage eras " The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her firat being, " and history accordingly informs us that men have believed... | |
 | 1960 - 516 pages
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| 1947 - 666 pages
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 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...immortal: but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish acts 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 to leave... | |
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