 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 : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act...  Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems ... - Page 189by John Milton - 1747Full view - About this book
 | Plutarchus - 1809 - 584 pages
...the latter sense, fap 105 Milton, in his Comus, uses the same comparison : - The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows clotted by contagion, Jmbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin. Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, linbodics, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by conta.cion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such... | |
 | Plutarch - 1813 - 550 pages
...because the ancients gave the ™* Milton, in his Comus, uses the same comparison : The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till sht1 quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 pages
...they have a reference to certain appearances exhibited by the outline of the Island of Cuba ; and 15$ Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, 470 Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...they have a reference to certain appearances exhibited by the outline of the Island of Cuba ; and 159 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, 47O Imbodies, and imbrutes, tjll^hecjuite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...that they have a reference to certain appearances exhibited by the outline of the Island of Cuba ; and Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, 470 Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being, Such are those... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin. Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. v Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp... | |
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