...connubial love refused : Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, 745 Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands...? Hail, wedded Love ! mysterious law, true source 750 Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous Lust...

...refused : Whatevt-'' hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, 745 Defaming us impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some,...Man ? Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source 750 Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thec adult'rous lust...

...turn'd, I ween, Adam from his fair spouse ; nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refus'd : Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and...some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase : 3 Who bids abstain, But our destroyer, foe to God, and man ? Hail, wedded love ! mysterious * law,...

...imaginations ; from prudery dictated by a conventional superficiality, and from false notions of morality, — •Defaming as Impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.' In the early period to which the Canticles are to be referred, these falsities had no existence. Men...

...Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, . 745 Defaming as impure what Grod declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to...Man ? Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source 750 Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adult 'rous lust...

...impure what God deelares Pure, and eommands to some, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids inerease ; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man ? , Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true souree 7M Of human oifspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things eommon else ! By thee adulterous...

...a Christian, made for themselves a great reputation for sanctity, which Milton well exposes, — " Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain, But our destroyer, foe to God and man." And Dean Swift, in homelier words, exposes their folly, — " Who bacon thinks gives God offence, Lacks...

...Eve the Rites Myfterious of connubial Love refus'd : Whatever Hypocrites aufterely. talk Of puritie and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to fom, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increafe, who bids abftain But our Deftroyer, foe to God and...

...carry with it ; is a work only worthy of those whom the celebrated Milton denounces as hypocrites ; .' Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what liod declares Pure." — * So, in his beautiful apostrophe to wedded love, he says, "Far be it I should...

...heads. Enjoying the most elevated and refined feelings, we say with the prince of British poets: '• Hail, wedded love! mysterious law! true source Of human offspring! sole propriety In paradise, if all things common else! By ihs;e adulterous las: was driven from men, Among the bes ial herds to...