 | John Milton - 1858 - 106 pagina’s
...turns it by degrees to the soul's essence,i5 Till all be made immortal ; but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by...inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies, and cmbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - 1858 - 190 pagina’s
...liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; But when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to th£ inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose... | |
 | John Eadie - 1859 - 474 pagina’s
...enjoyment, and, living in pleasure, is dead while he liveth. For when impurity — " by lewd and lowest arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The...quite lose The divine property of her first being." ; Is not the social evil of great cities a reproach to civilization and Christianity? character, modesty,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1859 - 802 pagina’s
...uses the same comparison ; for which, however, he is indebted rather to Plato ban to Plutarch. The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward...clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till sbe quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such arc those thick and gloomy shadows daup... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 pagina’s
...More an early bias to the study of Plato, hint at the same opinion in these exquisite lines in Comus ? The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose Tke divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in oharnel... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagina’s
...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...are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pagina’s
...expressed as is the failure of the ideal. Here, for example, is the Elder Brother: when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish acts of sin interesting. Criticism of Comus often discusses chastity, of course, usually as a theological... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pagina’s
...hilarious when we imagine the older brother theologizing to the younger: But when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by...till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.3 After seven more lines depicting "carnal sensuality" the younger brother gushes forth his admiration... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...savage fierce, Bandite, or mountaneer Will dare to soyl her Virgin purity, 4 but when lust By unchaste "F 19 0 loose The divine property of her first being. OAEL-1; OBS 5 Wherefore did Nature powre her bounties... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pagina’s
...figured in corporal terms: 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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Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 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... 
