 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - Počet stránok 226
...reflections. To Adam, Eve appears more firmly and immediately grounded in herself and her world than he: "so absolute she seems / And in herself complete, so well to know / Her own" (8.547-49). Eve is capable "Of what was high" but prefers to attend to cares closer to the earth-"her... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - Počet stránok 368
...power over him which verges on the "absolute rule" which his fair large front purportedly declares: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. The metrical awkwardness of the final line exposes the immense struggle involved in articulating equal... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - Počet stránok 448
...understand in the prime end / Of nature her the inferior" (540-41) — his emotions tell him otherwise: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - Počet stránok 230
...imperfect embodiment of the divine image (8.540-6). From another perspective, however, Eve appears perfect: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. (546-50) Adam is misled by the outward image of Eve, from which Eve herself was initially called away... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - Počet stránok 540
...Image who made both, and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O're other Creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat, so well to know I ler own, that what she wills to do or say. Seems wisest, vertuousest,... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - Počet stránok 180
...of passion and the "charm" of beauty's powerful glance, or his diffidence toward wisdom — is this: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat. (VIII, 546ff) Eve cannot be absolute and complete. Adam knows that as well as Satan... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - Počet stránok 432
...pregnant with misunderstanding: when 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, and discreetest, best; All higher wisdom in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 2002 - Počet stránok 332
...nature bestowed on Eve Too much of Ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. . . . yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded.92 Milton, despite his puritanism, shows great susceptibility to the ornamental woman —... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - Počet stránok 388
...he knows full well to be invalid — that Eve has no need of and is therefore superior to him: ... so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. (8.547-550) Adam's oscillation between regarding Eve as excessive and as perfectly complete reveals... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - Počet stránok 1084
...Image who made both, and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n 545 O'er other Creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrcetest, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with... | |
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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. 
