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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... "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 383
edited by - 1829
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe f So dear to heaven ia 7 lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: The Catholic, Volume 3

William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1849 - 598 pages
...Isabella at her brother's court might well have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture : " So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...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, Till oft converse...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...imitate John Milton in this respect — be teetotallers. Here, again, is another most noble passage — So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...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; Till oft converse...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...of chaste austerity. And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...noble grace thatjashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? /£«•»- A r tfc «e<, So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, ) 455 Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe 1 So dear to heav'n is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe 7 So dear to heav'n is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell...
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Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women

Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...must be exposed to influences scarcely less destructive of real purity and integrity of soul ; — " A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and gnilt." Accustomed to love whatsoever things are true, just, pure, and lovely, she will instinctively...
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Happy Evenings; Or, The Literary Institution at Home

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.' " And, again — " ' So dear to Heav"n is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand livery'd angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn...
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The Language of Flowers: The Floral Offering: a Token of Affection and ...

Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...but the Sensitive Plant is a perfect image of innocence and virgin modesty, the result of instinct. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. Oh ! she is colder than the mountain's snow. To such a subtile purity she's wrought, She's prayed and...
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