| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 pagine
...inward faculties, which most excel : In outward also her resembling less His image who made both, und less expressing The character of that dominion given...And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, thut what she wills to do or say, » j'ai amené mon histoire jusqu'au comble de la » félicité terrestre... | |
| Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pagine
...perfection. Its rare delicacy and beauty reader it a suitable emblem of Mental Beauty. MENTAL BEAUTY. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...discreetest, best, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows. MILTON. What is... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 pagine
...you and I used to select as, perhaps, the most touching of all descriptions of a husband's love. " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Such was the opinion of Adam of his wife, before his happiness was murdered by her forfeiting it ;... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pagine
...understand in the prime end Of Nature her the inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most eicel; still with laughter the vain toil surveys. And buries...individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind. virtuouscst, discrectcst, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 pagine
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion giv'n O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness,...best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows : Authority and... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pagine
...inward less exact. For well I understand, in the prime end Of nature, her the inferior in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel; In outward,...discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pagine
...inward faculties, which most excel : In outward also her resembling less His image who made lioth , and less expressing The character of that dominion..., that what she wills to do or say , Seems wisest, virtuousest,discreetest', best : AH higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagine
...most excel ; In outward also her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing Tile virluousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence fall* Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pagine
...dost thou swell into an angel! 6 That dear woman, who forms his happiness, and embellishes his life. 6 When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.' 1 1 Milton (from the Circumcision). 2 Tanered and Sigismunda. 3 Scott. 4 Ledyard. * Bulwer. CHAP. XV.... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pagine
...of inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end Of Nature her the inferior, in the mind s, Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own,... | |
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