 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
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...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 7'he divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp.... | |
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...comparison ; for which, however, he is indebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch. The 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... | |
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...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,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 502 pages
...comparison ; for which, however, he is tndebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch : — The 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,... | |
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...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
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...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 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,... | |
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...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, 465 ^ The samenotion of body's working up to spirit Milton afierwards introduced into his Paradise... | |
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...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... | |
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