 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pages
...Heav'n 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, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...Elder Brother equates lust with the intrusion into the soul of an incarnate evil: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely...that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...Well-schooled he surely is — but we see his lack of experience when he declares: So dear to Heav'n 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 . . . [453-56] He knows his Plato well and overawes... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...higher knowledge — and as such it rewards a poet amply. The Angels who attend the truly chaste woman "in clear dream and solemn vision / Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear" (11. 457-458). It is a short step from these Angels and such "converse with heav'nly habitants" to... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...that dash't brute violence With sudden adoration, and hlank aw. So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chaslity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in deer dream, and solemn vision Tell her... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saindy chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so,...thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each dung of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can... | |
 | Judith Yarnall - 1994 - 260 pages
...virginal Diana and Minerva as examples. According to the Brother, this virtue is so dear to heaven That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. . . . Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted... | |
 | Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - 1995 - 168 pages
...danger she faces, and does so in terms of the conflict between chastity and desire: So dear to Heav'n 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, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...them — by practicing the doctrine of abstinence. As the Elder Brother puts it: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th'outward shape, The... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...chaste austerity, 450 And noble grace that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration, and blank awe. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants0 Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns... | |
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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... 
