...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...quite lose The divine property of her first being.''* * Comus. Lord Holland's views are all so grovelling, so purely and entirely of this world, that even...

...to exhibit the soul's essence when polluted altogether, — when, in Milton's language, the soul " Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." How far the image of sin — absolute sin — here sculptured by Dante, is a symbol created by himself,...

...lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." "When speaking upon the same subject, Solomon aske, " Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes...

...and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows elotted by eontagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Ma¡an's Comus. I know the very differenee that lies 'Twixt hallow'd love and base unholy lust ; I...

...Gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish acts of Sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The Soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and...quite lose The divine Property of her first being. 3Lti£t, — Shakspeare. "^HE expense of spirit in a waste of Shame Is Lust in action ; and till action,...

...acts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, I mi lodiea and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. How charming is divine philosophy I Not harsh and crabbed, as dull tools suppose ; But musical as is...

...satisfied. Their soul, " clotted with the contagion " of impure thoughts and low purposes, — 15 " Embodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being; " — and when the mortal part, to which they have compelled her to be a purveyor and vassal, is dissolved,...

...act of sin, Lets in defilement to th£ inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Embodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being." When speaking upon the same subject, Solomon asks, " Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes...

...liveth. For when impurity — " by lewd and lowest arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and...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,...

...college-friend Henry 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...