 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam, the goodliest6 man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain-side They sat them... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1847
...thought no ill : 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. Milton. FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTS. THE first human pair, lovely in form, and pure in mind, God placed... | |
 | John Smith (lecturer on education.) - 1847
...a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed at unmercifully : — ' Adam, the goodliest of men since born His sons ; — the fairest of her daughters, Eve.' Shakespeare says (the words are Ariel's, in the " Tempest "),— ' Now bid me run, And I will strive... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" " Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians ; " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve." — Milton, PL book iv. * " The superlative is often more agreeable to the ear ; nor is the sense injured.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848
...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... | |
 | John Hunter - 1848 - 190 Seiten
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" '• Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians j " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve."—Milton, PL book iv. 6. Whether we should say " The fine first books," or " The first five books,"... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848
...ill : 320 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters ETe. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They... | |
 | 1856
...and eye sublime declared Absolute rule * • * Simplicity and spotless innocence." Such was : — " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born " His Sons the fairest of her daughter Eve." Since creation's dawn, but one other perfect Incarnate Form to earth descended: " Altogether... | |
 | 1849
...graced with forms of princely majesty and queenly beauty, only inferior to the pair " imparadised:" " Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve." Genius at once fired and refi/ied by these living models, will produce other models, artificial. Then... | |
 | 1906
...Schwestern die beste." In English the classical instance occurs in 'Paradise Lost,' iv. 323-4 :— Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Hazlitt ('English Poets,' rj. 374) writes: "Moral poetry is the highest of all others " ; and I have... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
