 | 1832 - 438 pages
...blissful immortality. " So on they pass'd, nor shun'd the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That...met; Adam, the goodliest man, of men since born, His sons,—the fairest of her daughters, Eve. Blest couple, link'd in happy nuptial league." MILTON. Their... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman. — " He does... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman. — " He does... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 490 pages
...but two instances, taken casually, and without selection. The first is his note upon B. IV. 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. We have had too much trial of his busy acquaintance,... | |
 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 490 pages
...but two instances, taken casually, and without selection. The first is his note upon B. IV. 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. We have had too much trial of his busy acquaintance,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...son except, Created thing nought valu'd he nor shunn'd. And that in which he describes Adam and Eve : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. It is plain that, in the former of these passages, according to the natural syntax, the divine persons... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...hushand.' So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel ; for they thought no ill : 320 So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's emhraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since horn His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 440 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — 'Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 444 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — 'Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest at' his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes."... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...English walls. 425 But imitative strokes can do no more Than please the eye, sweet Nature every sense 30. The air salubrious of her lofty hills, The cheering...deep. Ibid. iv. 76. Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama : sobitque omnium ante se Principiun, in melius mutatus est. — Tacitus Hist. i. 50. 30 For eloquence... | |
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So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
