| Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 pages
...and improve the intellectual and moral powers: " Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Milton. Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence Till all be made immortal." Most thankful am I that the enterprise... | |
| William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no...outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the souls essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust By unchaste looks,... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things...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,... | |
| Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 pages
...gods and men is wound.'" The young Milton believed that "oft convers with heav'nly habitants" might "Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape, / The...temple of the mind" and turn it "by degrees to the souls essence, / Till all be made immortal. . . .""'-' The Platonic worlds appear in this illustration... | |
| Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...higher knowledge — and as such it rewards a poet amply. The Angels who attend the truly chaste woman "in clear dream and solemn vision / Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear" (11. 457-458). It is a short step from these Angels and such "converse with heav'nly habitants" to... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in deer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft convers with heav'nly habitants Begin to casJ a beam on th' outward shape, The unpolluted temple of... | |
| Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - 1995 - 168 pages
...so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in cleer dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear . . . As a consequence, the 'unpolluted temple of the mind', is turned 'by degrees to the souls essence'.... | |
| J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lacky her, 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 degrees to the souls essence,... | |
| Leonora Leet - 2003 - 388 pages
...Comus, he speaks of the relationship possible between a saintly soul and the angelic guides who . . . in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things...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 Lets in defilement... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of...that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants0 Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind,... | |
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