 ... -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. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom,...  The Tatler - Seite 3991822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 Seiten
...(Dec. 3, 1709) : "If virtue in men is more venerable, it is in women more lovely; which Milton has very finely expressed in his Paradise Lost, where...his own pre-eminence as being first in creation and interna1 faculties, breaks out into the following rapture." 115 33. PL 8. 560-594. 11615. PL 8. 645-651.... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 439 Seiten
...justice to the sex. If virtue in men is more venerable, it is in women more lovely; which Milton has very finely expressed in his "Paradise Lost," where...internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : -" Tet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1900 - 240 Seiten
...of women nothing is more loftily conceived than the well-known passage at the end of Boob viii : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, BO well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtnousest, discreetest, best... | |
 | John Milton - 1900 - 588 Seiten
...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 Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vertuousest,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Gott - 1902 - 442 Seiten
...complete, or make perfect.1' It is so used here. And this is the favourite Miltonic use in several places : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her herself complete (Paradise Lost, viii. 546), where absolute means finished. Other passages are... | |
 | 1902 - 442 Seiten
...complete, or make perfect." It is so used here. And this is the favourite Miltonic use in several places : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her herself complete (Parodise Lost, viii. 546), where absolute means finished. Other passages are... | |
 | John Milton - 1908 - 586 Seiten
...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 Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vertuousest,... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1920 - 514 Seiten
...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 Her own, that what she wills to do or say, » Eg, Divorce, 2. 11,... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1920 - 506 Seiten
...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 Her own, that what she wills to do or say, i Eg^ Divorce, 2. 11,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe - 1925 - 240 Seiten
...Hazlitt seems to have remembered and combined two descriptions of Eve, Paradise Lost, VIII. 547 : . . . 'Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete," etc. and IX. 454 : ' If chance with nymphlike step fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her... | |
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