 | 1854 - 474 pages
...ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact. VOL. III. O When I approach Her loveliness, iO absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well...All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded i wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanc'd, and like folly shows : Authority and reason... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 398 pages
...picture of unfallen, perfect womanhood, in his Eve : — "Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absoluie she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know...discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degruded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...that dominion given 545 " O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach " Her loveliness, so absolute3 she seems, " And in herself complete, so well to know...that what she wills to do or say, " Seems wisest, virtuousest,3 discreetest, best: 550 " All higher knowledge in her presence falls " Degraded ; wisdom... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 462 pages
...me she might represent Milton's glorious picture of unfallen, perfect womanhood, in his Eve : — " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know ] 1 1 r own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrcctest, best. All higher... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...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, virtuonsest, discreetest,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exaet. 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, disercetest,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...enough ; at least on her bcstow'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, BO well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrcetest,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...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...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest, best : *'All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with... | |
 | Henry H (hon.) - 1855 - 88 pages
...brightest. white, whiter, whitest. cool, cooler, coolest. Milton, in describing Eve, makes Adam say,— " So absolute she seems, And in herself complete ; so...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ;" but this is a poetical license. Some adjectives form their comparative and superlative by different... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...Ornament . . "For well I understand," Adam says, that she is supposed to be inferior to me intellectually, yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vertuousest,... | |
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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. 
