 Till all be made immortal : but 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...  Bell's British Theatre: Comus, by J. Milton. ... Love in a village, by I ... - Page 341797Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 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...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave, As loth to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself... | |
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 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...quite lose The divine property of her first being." 5. One may help one's self greatly in this matter by securing good physical conditions. I have spoken... | |
 | Literature - 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...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... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 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...gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in Charnel vaults and Sepulchers, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - Drama - 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 - Literary Criticism - 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...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 - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk. But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, zen loose The divine property of her first being. OAEL-1; OBS 5 Wherefore did Nature powre her bounties... | |
 | James Turner - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Françoise Pellan - Psychoanalysis and literature - 1994 - 198 pages
...passage de Cornus dans lequel le frère aîné de la jeune fille stigmatise la luxure avant de conclure : Such 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 thé body that it loved, And link'd itself... | |
 | Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - Psychology - 1995 - 168 pages
...other hand: 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...contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose The divine property of her first being. When Comus places the Lady in an enchanted chair, and... | |
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