 Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe,...  Elements of Criticism - Page 121by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pages
...same accent, as well аз an equal division of every line; which fatigue the ear without intermission or change. I cannot set this matter in a better light,...passage of Milton : Two of far nobler shape, erect and toll, Godlike erect, with native honor clad, In naked majesty, scein'd lords of all, And worthy secm'd... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...thé fienrt Saw, undelighted, ail delight, ail kind Of living créatures, new to sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked m&jesty, seem'd lords of ail; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1860 - 436 pages
...creatures new to sight, and strange," that met the eyes of Satan on his entrance into paradise:— " Two, of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty, seemed lords of all." But (not needlessly to refrain from again having recourse to him whose language... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...where the fiend Saw, undelighted, all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange, Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect,...honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all, 290 And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 pages
...Eve (with a certain self-conscious insistence on what was then possible) in Paradise before the Fall: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majestic seemed Lords of all, His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule . . ." 79... | |
 | James L. Kugel - 1990 - 268 pages
...describes Adam and Eve among the other creatures in Eden, they meet the epic requirement without stint. Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honor clad In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all, And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine The image... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pages
...beauty mystique. Adam and Eve are beautiful in paradise before the Fall (Paradise Lost, Bk. 4: 288ff): Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...264-268) 7) the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange: — can heal — For 'tis His institution — and The Adequate of Hell - (1. 9-12) NAAL-1; NOBA; seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...baffling blend of mutuality and hierarchy. First, they are distinguished as a pair from the other animals: "Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, / Godlike erect, with native Honor clad / In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all." Yet cognizance of their comparatively equal stature... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 pages
...of realization left Empson sceptical. I had quoted the f1rst appearace of Adam and Eve in the poem: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honours clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The... | |
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