| Charlotte Anne Waldie Eaton - 1826 - 302 pages
...seems, And in herself complete, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded...discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews ; Authority and reason on her wait. And to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness,... | |
| 1828 - 608 pages
...when I approach Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest, best ; All 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... | |
| Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1828 - 140 pages
...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtnonsest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses disconntenanc'd, and like folly shows. Authority, and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...as if I were a wilful and resolved occasions of my own and my subjects' miseries. King (.'liarles. Authority and reason on her wait. As one intended first, not after made Occasionally. ' ifilton's Paradise Lost. Let me not let pass Occasion which now smiles. Id. Tn case aman dig a pit... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, hest ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended fust, not... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...to. know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, hest: AII 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... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 pages
...the nature of things, '•' That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded....folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait."— And all this is built on her loveliness ! In the middle rank of life, to continue the comparison, men,... | |
| Aristophanes - 1833 - 130 pages
...high flown in praise of the sex. 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 discountenanced, and like folly shews ; Authority and reason on her wait. Nor was this all ; on other... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 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 D ' Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended... | |
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