 O'er other creatures : 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...  The World's Best Poetry ... - Страница 365под редакцията на - 1904Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 страници
...*o well lo know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Beerns wisest, virttiousest, dtscreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discounlenanc'd, and like folly shows: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 394 страници
...Comus ? or created his delightful Eve? on whom, "as on a queen, a pomp of winning graces waited still." All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows ; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1838 - 292 страници
...and intelligent woman has over the minds of men, that is to be found in the English language. —Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...Occasionally ; and to consummate all, Greatness of /rnnd, and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic... | |
 | 1838 - 586 страници
...who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 страници
...to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 страници
...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,...falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows. MILTON. What is beauty ? Not the show Of shapely limbs and features.... | |
 | 1839 - 446 страници
...every gesture dignity and love. When I approach Her loveliness. so absolute she seems, And in herselr complete, so well to know Her own; that what she wills...discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shews ; Authority and reason on her wait ; * • and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 страници
...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 ;... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 страници
...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,...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or sty, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Such was the opinion of Adam of his wife, before... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 страници
...reflections. To Adam, Eve appears more firmly and immediately grounded in herself and her world than he: "so absolute she seems / And in herself complete, so well to know / Her own" (8.547-49). Eve is capable "Of what was high" but prefers to attend to cares closer to the earth-"her... | |
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