 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 oft converse with...  The Lottery of Life [and Other Stories] - Page 138by Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1842 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...things that no gross car can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degree« to the soul'* essence, Till all be made immorUil, 80NQ. SABRINA fair, Listen where thou art... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 568 pages
...things 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,...degrees to the soul's essence, Till all he made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 656 pages
...things that no pross ear can hear. Till oft converse with hcav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th" outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind,...turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust. By unchaste looks, loosf jestures, and foul talk. But most by lewd... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...things 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,...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... | |
 | Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 pages
...intellectual and moral powers: " Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Milton. Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind,...turns it by degrees to the soul's essence Till all be made immortal." Most thankful am I that the enterprise which I dared to suggest has met with encouragement... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...things 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 turns it by degrees to the souls essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...things 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,...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... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Drama - 1985 - 216 pages
...fancies. (CPW, II, 278-289) Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th'outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal. (11. 459-463; emphasis added) For the elder Brother, as for Milton, the existence... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft convers with heav'nly habitants Begin to casJ a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the souls essence, Till all be made immortal: but when lusl By unchasle looks, loose geslures, and foul... | |
 | Judith Yarnall - Circe (Greek mythology) in literature - 1994 - 260 pages
...liveried angels lackey her. . . . Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind,...turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal (ll. 453-54, 458-62) Though the boy speaks gracefully, he has been sternly tutored,... | |
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