 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 Seiten
...side subducting, took perhaps More than enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanc'd,... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 202 Seiten
...honor. This is still nobler than Milton's view, in that exquisite passage, where Adam saya of Eve, " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 Seiten
...resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given 645 O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness,...falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 Seiten
...in the prime end 540 Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel, In outward also her resembling less His image who...falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 Seiten
...you and I used to select as, perhaps, the most touching of all descriptions of a husband's love. " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Such was the opinion of Adam of his wife, before his happiness was murdered by her forfeiting it ;... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 Seiten
...perfection. Its rare delicacy and beauty reader it a suitable emblem of Mental Beauty. MENTAL BEAUTY. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 Seiten
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion giv'n O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc'd,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given als find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind. virtuouscst, discrectcst, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing Tile character of that dominion given d б xб @& virluousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence fall* Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
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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... 
