 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...tells him this in loving dialogue (4.639). But Adam feels the risk, as he tries to explain to Raphael: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Looses discount'nanc't, and like folly shewes. (PL 8.551-53) Raphael is unimpressed by Adam's argument,... | |
 | Adam Gopnik - 2004 - 654 pages
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 | Victoria Kahn - 2009 - 392 pages
...so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows. (8.530-53) Adam experiences the force of passion as a personal... | |
 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 pages
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 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2005 - 441 pages
...higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her. loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after matte OeeasionaEy ; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her,... | |
 | Charles Williams - 2005 - 208 pages
...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Charles Williams - 2005 - 134 pages
...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
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O'er other creatures. 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. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... 
