 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 דפים
...dominion giv'n 545 O'er other creatures ; yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, )C And in herself, complete ; so well to know Her own,...falls Degraded ! Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanced, and like folly shews. 537. The same sentiment is more fully expressed by Milton in... | |
 | 1881 - 792 דפים
...presented in the following pissage to be found at the end of the eighth Book of Paradise Lost : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest. best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1850 - 202 דפים
...result. In short, a proper definition of the word discretion would exactly convey a just idea of my ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best !" MILTON. Mrs. H. More says, " There is a large class of excellent female characters, who, on account... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 דפים
...of that dominion giv'n " O'er other creatures : yet when I approach " Her loveliness, so absolute 8 she seems " And in herself complete ; so well to know...say, " Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: * " All higher knowledge in her presence falls " Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her " Loses discount'nanc'd,... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 דפים
...power over him which verges on the "absolute rule" which his fair large front purportedly declares: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. The metrical awkwardness of the final line exposes the immense struggle involved in articulating equal... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 דפים
...emotions tell him otherwise: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 דפים
...the nature of things That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded....like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait.' — 18 And all this is built on her loveliness! In the middle rank of life, to continue the comparison,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 דפים
...been told that she was inferior to him 'in the mind / And inward faculties', he confessed to Raphael : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 דפים
...imperfect embodiment of the divine image (8.540-6). From another perspective, however, Eve appears perfect: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. (546-50) Adam is misled by the outward image of Eve, from which Eve herself was initially called away... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 דפים
...Milton, often dismissed as a dour Puritan, puts a speech about Eve on Adam's lips that says it all. when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'... | |
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Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best... 
