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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on ... - Page 159
by John Milton - 1843
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Social and Political Morality

William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...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...quite lose The divine property of her first being." 5. One may help one's self greatly in this matter by securing good physical conditions. I have spoken...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...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, And turns it by...foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 455 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes,...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. — Shakspere. But when Lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. Milton. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast...
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A Commentary on the Song of Solomon

George Burrowes - 1853 - 542 pages
...oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted templo of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal."* VER. 16, 17. — Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant : also our bed is green. The beams...
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The Works of Walter Savage Landor...

Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 706 pages
...his "liveried angels," v.455,and would say nothing about lust. How could he have learned that lost By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, &c. Canyon tell me what wolves are "stalled wolves," v. 534. Soutliey. Not exactly. But here is another...
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Lectures to Young Men

William Greenleaf Eliot - 1854 - 204 pages
...found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures,...inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." "When speaking...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Book 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...Both Worlds. '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 the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal '*." Leaving, however, the observers from without, who often take an exaggerated view even of good,...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic of Spain, Volume 2

William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 492 pages
...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 turns it by...to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal." 0) " Era tanto," says L, Marineo, " el ardor y diligencia que tenia cerca el culto divino, que aunque...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 37

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1854 - 568 pages
...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 turns it by 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...
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The Poems of John Milton

John Milton - 1968 - 1252 pages
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