So dear to heav'n 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 Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape. β¨ John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). Milton: Poetry & Prose
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- How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns β¨ John Milton, β¦ βΆ
- And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.
- A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. β¨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55
- Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. β¨ 'Comus' (1637) l. 739
- The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
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