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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... "
Papers of an undergraduate, a selection from the MSS. of W. T. Edwards [ed ... - Page 142
by William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862
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Lives, characters, and an address to posterity. Ed. by J.Jebb

Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...him as to his natural powers, could ever grow to be, if corrupted with vice and defilement, f • * So dear to heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt : And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell...
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Lives, Characters, and an Address to Posterity

Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...mind is, both, better prepared for an enlightening from above, and more capable of receiving it*;. * ' So dear to heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ; And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell...
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Old maids; their varieties, characters, and conditions

Old maids - 1835 - 246 pages
...defiance — and tell him to his teeth, that he knows nothing of the ' high mystery ' of Old Maidism. " So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of guilt and sin : And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,...
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The Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and Character

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1836 - 230 pages
...seraph's wing, and sung their wonders on a seraph's harp — sweetly sa3's, — ' So dear to heav'ti is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely...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 Bachelors, and Other Tales, Founded on American Incidents and Character

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1836 - 232 pages
...' So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a spul is found sincerely so, A thousand livened 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...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, Volume 3

William Hickling Prescott - 1837 - 624 pages
...brother's court might well have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture : " So dear to heaven u saintly chastity. That, when a soul is found sincerely...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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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, Volume 3

William Hickling Prescott - 1838 - 564 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...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...
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Memorials of a Beloved Friend: Or, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Napier

Elizabeth Ritchie - 1838 - 194 pages
...seems to involve pollution, save to a soul endowed with heavenly grace, of which it may be said, " A thousand liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt." We would not expose confiding youth to the influence of the company and conversation of evil men, nor...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to heav'n is 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 clear dream, and solemn vision,...
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Means and Ends, Or, Self-training

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1839 - 288 pages
...necessary, she could have gone from Georgia to Maine without a protector, and what need of one, when — '. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt." But Mary was not confined to " woman's sphere." Raymond, as far as was possible by the communication...
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