 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.  Complete Poetical Works - Page 207by John Milton - 1862Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...presented in the following pissage to be found at the end of the eighth Book of Paradise Lost : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1850 - 202 pages
...result. In short, a proper definition of the word discretion would exactly convey a just idea of my ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best !" MILTON. Mrs. H. More says, " There is a large class of excellent female characters, who, on account... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pages
...character of that dominion given 545 O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, BO absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well...do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, belt : 550 As one intended first, not after made 555 Occasionally j and. to consummate all, Greatness... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...noble is that passage, in which Adam describes the mental endowments of his fair partner : — " ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete ; so...All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, and like folly shows ; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made. Occasionally,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...understand in the prime end Of Nature her the inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel ; it Those full, mature, immeasurable stores, That,...the reapers stand, In fair array ; each by the lass discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...understand, in the prime end Of nature, her the inferior in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel; In outward, also, her resembling less His image who...falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other ereatures: yet when I approach Her loreliness , so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so...she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, disereetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...understand in the prime end Of Nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel; In outward also her resembling less His image who...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 - 1853 - 474 pages
...understand, in the prime end Of nature, her the inferior in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel ; In outward, also, her resembling less His image who...falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...in the prime end Of Nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel ; In outward also her resembling less His image who...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... | |
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