 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 480 pagine
...his debates with the mother of mankind, adds, — Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute Bhe seems, And in herself complete ; so well to know Her...best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows ; Authority and... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pagine
...inward less exact : For well I understand in the prime end Of nature her th' inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel : In outward...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousesl, discreetest, besl : AU higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pagine
...which most excel; In outward also her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing 17 N The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures:...discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pagine
...character of that dominion given O'er other creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute1 she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know...best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1857 - 274 pagine
...angel Raphael, " For well I understand, in the prime end Of nature, her the inferior ; in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel ; In outward...character of that dominion given O'er other creatures." Paradise Lost, b. 8. In his prose also, the zealous republican maintains the same doctrine, as in his... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pagine
...from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest. BYROB. ADAM'S DESCRIPTION OF EVR. 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 discountenanced, and like folly shows ; Authority and... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagine
...of 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 shews ; Authority and... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pagine
...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pagine
...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...discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 pagine
...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...discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and... | |
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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. 
