 ... -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. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom,...  The Tatler - Страница 3991822Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Phebe F. McKeen - 1875 - 504 страници
...deference, while she had the self-poised repose of an accomplished woman accustomed to the world — " ' So absolute she seems And in herself complete ; so well to know Her own,'" — murmured the girl, with a dreary sense of her own crudeness. " Col. Rolfe seems quite fascinated... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1246 страници
...upon the models of a more heroic time — that which produced Lucy Hutchinson and Anne Fanshawe : *' When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know .. A' Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; VOL.... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1880 - 252 страници
...women nothing is more loftily conceived than the well-known passage at the end of Book viii. : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to kuow Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuonsest, discreetest, best 5 All higher... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 страници
...enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest,... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 страници
...image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion giv'n O'er other creatures : 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 to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 страници
...justice to the sex. If virtue in men is more venerable, it is in women more lovely; which Milton has very finely expressed in his Paradise Lost, where...having asserted his own pre-eminence, as being first in creatio faculties, breaks out into the following : —Yet when I approai Her loveliness, so absolute... | |
 | Job Flower - 1882 - 208 страници
...would be a mere toy. With them she approaches the grand ideal of our own sweet poet, Milton : — " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself csmplete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest,... | |
 | 1882 - 866 страници
...her in Paradise. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. So absolute she seems. And in herself complete, so well to know I Ier own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 страници
...(Dec. 3, 1709) : " If virtue in men is more venerable, it is in women more lovely; which Milton has very finely expressed in his Paradise Lost, where...faculties, breaks out into the following rapture." 115 33. PL 8. 560-594. 11615. PL 8. 645-651. 117 21. Roman Antiquities, Bk. 1. 118 25. ^£«. 3. 255-257.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 236 страници
...Totler (Dec. 3, 1709): "If virtue in men is more venerable, it is in women more lovely; which Milton has very finely expressed in his Paradise Lost, where...faculties, breaks out into the following rapture." 115 33. PL 8. 560-594. 11615. PL 8. 645-651. 117 21. Roman Antiquities, Bk. 1. 118 25. Mn. 3. 255-257.... | |
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