...understand in the prime end Of Nature her th'inferiour, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excell, In outward also her resembling less His Image who...and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O're other Creatures. [VIII, 530-46] The ideas are those the reader heard from the narrative...

...definition, to share: For well I understand in the prime end Of Nature her th'inferior, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excel, In outward also her resembling less His image who made both. (VIII.540-44) Adam does not make the claim in so many words, but remarks of this sort unfortunately...

...understand in the prime end Of Nature her th'inferiour, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excell, In outward also her resembling less His Image who...and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O're other Creatures: (534-46) Adam's notion that his vulnerability might be a natural failure...

...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...

...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,...

...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'...

...goddess, almost (though Adam does not say it) a rival to the divine power of the Father and the Son: 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'nanced,...

...this recuperative view: For well I understand in the prime end Of Nature her th'inferior, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excel, In outward...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 herself...

...the prime end 540 Of Nature her th' inferiour, in the mind And inward Faculties, which most excel 1, In outward also her resembling less His Image who...and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O're other Creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self...

...Adam makes that association when he reveals to Raphael that Eve in her loveliness seems absolute and complete: so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse...