| James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - Počet stránok 372
...dost thou swell into an angel! 6 That dear woman, who forms his happiness, and embellishes his life. 6 When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.' 1 1 Milton (from the Circumcision). 2 Tanered and Sigismunda. 3 Scott. 4 Ledyard. * Bulwer. CHAP. XV.... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - Počet stránok 592
...image who made lioth , and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet , when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute..., that what she wills to do or say , Seems wisest, virtuousest,discreetest', best : AH higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - Počet stránok 826
...image who made both, and less expressing Tile character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : virluousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence fall* Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1843 - Počet stránok 346
...select as, perhaps, the most touching of all descriptions of a husband's love. " When I approach j - Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Such was the opinion of Adam of his wife, before his happiness was murdered by her forfeiting it ;... | |
| Z. A. Davis - 1843 - Počet stránok 408
...Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. And in another place, So absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrcetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Počet stránok 868
...creatures, gracefnll and ttiicreet. Milton. Parailúe Regained, book ii. 1. 167. — — ; --- Vet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself comptent, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, ducretest,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - Počet stránok 604
...who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given 545 O'er other creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 550 As one intended first, not after made 555 Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - Počet stránok 374
...2. Kath. A prince most prudent, of an excellent And unmatched wit and judgment. Henry V1IL, ii. 4. that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. PL, viii. 550. what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambick, teachers best Of moral... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - Počet stránok 360
...she has, however, that which many good people may deem a full equivalent, namely, wisdom and skill, " So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, beat." And perhaps the rest of this noble description may be not unfitly applied to her : — " Authority... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - Počet stránok 600
...who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given 545 O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know tier own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 550 As one... | |
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