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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... "
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical and Critical - Page 99
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 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 discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...
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Who We are: Our Dignity as Human : a Neo-evangelical Theology

Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 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' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...
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The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1997 - 492 pages
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The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750

Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 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'nanced, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...
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Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind

Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 306 pages
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Chambers Dictionary of Quotations

Alison Jones, Stephanie Pickering, Megan Thomson - 1996 - 1546 pages
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The Politics of Revelation in the English Renaissance

Esther Gilman Richey - 1998 - 274 pages
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The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative ...

Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 382 pages
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A Reader's Guide to John Milton

Marjorie Hope Nicolson - 1998 - 462 pages
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Against Coercion: Games Poets Play

Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 pages
...hierarchy must be kept (549-56): 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; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...
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