 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.  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 282edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so ahsolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, hest: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 332 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture: Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetcst, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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,...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Lost, b. 8. Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her eye, In ev'ry gesture dignity and love. Ibid. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...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...well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or sav, •/ * Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - English fiction - 1824 - 602 pages
...in the beautiful language of Milton, when Adam thus expresses his thoughts of Eve : ———" Vet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to kuow Her own, that what she wills to do or say . > Seemi wisest, virtuousest, discrete&t, best. All... | |
 | Mrs. Catherine George Ward Mason - 1825 - 976 pages
...expresses his thoughts of Eve : — • — " Vet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute the seems. And in herself complete, so well to know Her...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - Marriage - 1828 - 140 pages
...veneration, what is purest and most attractive in nature—virgin innocence, and maternal affection. - - v When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtnonsest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...cherished, the portraits of women will never be well executed. They will never bear the impress of mind. Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know 4 " Yet when I approach Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
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