 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 Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 465 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...clotted by contagio-n, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 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...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 - 2000 - 412 pages
...lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by leud and lavish act of sin, 4*5 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp... | |
 | 1918 - 472 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. Still further illustrative of Milton's belief... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 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... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...Kerrigan, "The Heretical Milton, ELR, V (1975), 144, for a connection between chastity and death anxiety. Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, /wbodies and iwbrutes.'2 (11. 463-468; emphasis added) In this overdetermined passage it sounds as... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 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.3 After seven more lines depicting "carnal sensuality"... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk. But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, zen she quite loose The divine property of her first being. OAEL-1; OBS 5 Wherefore did Nature powre her... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...When lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by leud and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. (lines 463-6) What is the difference here between carnal impurity and mental sin? Another way of putting... | |
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