 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833
...him as to his natural powers, could ever grow to be, if corrupted with vice and defilement, f • * So dear to heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt : And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 386 Seiten
...mind is, both, better prepared for an enlightening from above, and more capable of receiving it*;. * ' So dear to heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt ; And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833
...perfume of the myrtle and orange trees, impregnating the air at once with harmony and fragrance! . ' So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving fur off each thing of sin and guilt; And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell... | |
 | Old maids - 1835 - 180 Seiten
...defiance — and tell him to his teeth, that he knows nothing of the ' high mystery ' of Old Maidism. " So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of guilt and sin : And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1836 - 216 Seiten
...seraph's wing, and sung their wonders on a seraph's harp — sweetly sa3's, — ' So dear to heav'ti is saintly chastity, That when a soul is 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,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1837
...brother's court might well have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture : " So dear to heaven u saintly chastity. That, when a soul is 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... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1838
...Isabella at her brother's court might well have sat for the whole of Milton's beautiful portraiture. " So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far oft" each thing of sin and gnilt, And, in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell... | |
 | John Mitford - 1838
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 455 Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1839 - 278 Seiten
...necessary, she could have gone from Georgia to Maine without a protector, and what need of one, when — '. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a...is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt." But Mary was not confined to " woman's sphere."... | |
 | John Milton - 1839
...And noble grace that dash'd brute violence With sudden adoration and blank awe ? So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, 455 Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of... | |
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