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...passages in Milton which are thoroughly Platonic. Take, for instance, that celebrated passage : — Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear ; Till ofl convene with heavenly habitants Begun to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple...

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...to virgin innocence— " A thousand liv'ried ang?ls lackey her, Driving far off each thing of siri and guilt; And in clear dream and solemn vision, Tell her of things that ro gross ear can hear: Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward...

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...immortality ; while, in the meantime, spirits of a higher order wait upon her as upon chastity in Comus— A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far...Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; Till olt converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple...

...or the hut: — ' " So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far...and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross car can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begins to cut a beam on the outward shape,...

...sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels—lackey her, Driving/or off—each thing of tin, and gwlt; And, in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear} Till oft converse—with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam—on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple...

...so, A thousand liveried angels — lackey her, Driving/or off — each thing of sin, and guilt,And, in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things, that no gross ear cnn hear, Till oft converse — with heavenly habitants Begins to cast a beam — on the outward shape,...