| 1881 - Počet stránok 792
...at the end of the eighth Book of Paradise Lost : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest. best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1850 - Počet stránok 202
...a proper definition of the word discretion would exactly convey a just idea of my ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best !" MILTON. Mrs. H. More says, " There is a large class of excellent female characters,... | |
| John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - Počet stránok 452
...that dominion giv'n " O'er other creatures : yet when I approach " Her loveliness, so absolute 8 she seems " And in herself complete ; so well to know...she wills to do or say, " Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: * " All higher knowledge in her presence falls " Degraded; wisdom in discourse with... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 594
...dominion giv'n 545 O'er other creatures ; yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, )C And in herself, complete ; so well to know Her own,...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ! 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ! Wisdom in discourse with... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - Počet stránok 352
...passage, in which Adam describes the mental endowments of his fair partner : — " ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete ; so well to know Her...she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, and like folly shows ; Authority... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - Počet stránok 428
...other ereatures : yet, when I approaeh Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself eomplete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, disereetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presenee falls Degraded ; wisdom in diseourse with... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - Počet stránok 858
...character of that dominion given O'er other ereatures: yet when I approach Her loreliness , so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, disereetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her... | |
| 1852 - Počet stránok 874
...character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she n'd field the reapers stand, In fair array ; each by the lass discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 548
...ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - Počet stránok 370
...character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her... | |
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