 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
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - 528 pages
...occurs in these lines of Milton's Comus : — ........ " But when lust, By ..... 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." J This seems to disagree with the custom ofgivingall... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of Bin, stood With@ 4 she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those (hick and gloomy shadows damp,... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1842 - 188 pages
...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton,—who, in his Comus, thus sings :— " When lust 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." —And how graphic, yet how revolting, the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 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,... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1843 - 204 pages
...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton, who, in his Comus, thus sings : — " When lust 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." And how graphic, yet how revolting, the description... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, h yield., 74 PARADISE LOST. Variety without end j...of the tree, Which, tasted, works knowledge of good she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp,... | |
 | 1843 - 172 pages
...authorities I may further add that of the great John Milton, who, in his Comus, thus sings : — - "When lust Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrulcs, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." And how graphic, yet how revolting,... | |
 | 1843 - 600 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. I in boilie<> and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being, Such are those... | |
 | John Smith (of Glasgow.) - 1847 - 342 pages
...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foal 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,... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. 4. But when Lust .... 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. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Lust is, of all the frailties... | |
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