| John Milton - 1917 - 660 páginas
...her_resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness,...falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1921 - 460 páginas
...faculties," but he follows this declaration with the most exquisite description of her peculiar excellences: When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems vnsest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: Authority and reason on her wait As one intended first, not... | |
| John Milton - 1925 - 588 páginas
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness,...falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
| Denis Saurat - 1925 - 400 páginas
...about them — a difficult task, but they can do so, in consideration of this one speech of Adam's: 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 49 Prose Works, TV,... | |
| John Milton - 1925 - 450 páginas
...made both, and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O'er other Creatures; yet when 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't,... | |
| 1909 - 502 páginas
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
| James Turner - 1993 - 368 páginas
...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... | |
| Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 páginas
...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... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...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,... | |
| Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 páginas
...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'... | |
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