| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1842 - 416 pages
...I look ou her without being reminded of the line.s in Coinus— ' A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till ofl converse with hcav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on Hi" outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...adoration and blank awe? So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till ofl converse with heavenly habitants 24 25 Begin to cost a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted... | |
| Margaret Miller Davidson - 1843 - 716 pages
...description of the heavenly influences that minister to virgin innocence — " A thousand liv'ried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin...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... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...Heaven 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 ;...that no gross ear can hear ; Till oft converse with heavenly habitants The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence,... | |
| 1843 - 600 pages
...passages in Milton which are thoroughly Platonic. Take, for instance, that celebrated passage : — Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till ofl convene with heavenly habitants Begun to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, , A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far ofT t to heavenly habitants 24 25 Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of ihe mind,... | |
| Margaret Miller Davidson - 1843 - 252 pages
...to virgin innocence— " A thousand liv'ried ang?ls lackey her, Driving far off each thing of siri and guilt; And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that ro gross ear can hear: Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey +L$ , car can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape,... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 566 pages
...That, when a soul is found sincerely 80, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far ofTeoch thing of sin and guilt, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear con Till on converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cost a beam on the outward hear, The unpolluted... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...immortality ; while, in the meantime, spirits of a higher order wait upon her as upon chastity in Comus— A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far...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... | |
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