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, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear... Comus, a Mask - Page viiiby John Milton - 1797 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1838 - 564 pages
...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far oft" each thing of sin and gnilt, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till olt converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 455 Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of...that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with beav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam ou th' outward shape, <oo The unpolluted temple of the mind,... | |
| 1839 - 394 pages
...no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outer shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turn...to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. It would be absurd, at the present day, to enter on any formal criticism of his great work of Paradise... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ; And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...goodness and purity. A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ; And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - Buccaneers - 1840 - 474 pages
...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ; And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no groas ear can hear, Till oft convene with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape,... | |
| John Edward Taylor - 1840 - 182 pages
...uniformly in the garb of greatness, which filled his mind, " And in clear dream and solemn vision Told him of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Began to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Margaret Miller Davidson, Washington Irving - Women poets, American - 1841 - 388 pages
...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind,...to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal." Of the images and speculations that floated in her mind during these half dreams, half reveries, we... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, U ؉ , C Zr Z =Cu Wki~x Wx ^R v heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - British literature - 1842 - 986 pages
...lines in Comus — ' A thousand liveried angels lucky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of...outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.' " " Well, if this be not love,... | |
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