 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...aspect, but has chosen rather to idealise that passage in the masque which begins with these lines: So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. " The Lady," a perfect emblem of the virtue thus highly consecrated, forms the centre of a group of... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 455 Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in...that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th? outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...unconqucr'd virgin, Wherewith she frcez'd her foes to congeal'd stone, But rigid looks of chaste austerity, And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden...and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross car can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 568 pages
...unblemished majesty. No goblin, or smart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...to account for those possessing it being eminently divine men. Every one has heard his lines, — " So dear to heaven is saintly chastity That when a...vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; * T. Binney, Both Worlds. 'Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1854 - 484 pages
...notice, made her defer so reverentially to her ghostly advisers, led, under the fanatic Torquemada, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving- far...hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to... | |
 | Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - Authors, American - 1854 - 360 pages
...threescore years and ten a greater experience than a Methuselah could have known. •••'. * CHAPTER XI. A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far...; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape. MILTON. BERTHA seems to have been occasionally much annoyed by... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - Character - 1854 - 204 pages
...deficiency; and to your own love of virtue, that a right direction to your thoughts may be given " So dear to Heaven is saintly CHASTITY, That, when...her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...chaste austerity, And noble grace, that dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe 'i So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,1 That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand...vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; 1 bpenser, FQ iii. 8, 29 :— Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the... | |
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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, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till... 
