| John Milton - 1857 - 188 pages
...author and disposer, what thou bidd'st 635 Unargu'd I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee eonversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and their ehange, all please alike. 640 Sweet... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...adorned , " My author and disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey: so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...adom'd: "My author and disposer, what then bidd'st Cnargued I obey; so God ordains. God is thy law, thon mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is... | |
| Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
...adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey; So God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. [PL 4. 634-38; Wollstonecraft's italics] It is significant that Wollstonecraft cannot attack Milton... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - Anti-racism - 1986 - 58 pages
...187-308): My author and disposer, what thou bid'st Unargu'd I obey; so God ordained. God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. (Pi 4.635-38; as cited in Letters i) Although hastening to assure Convers that she "willingly acknowledge^]... | |
| Larry Ceplair - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 404 pages
...Adam: My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordains — God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.* This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity and wickedness. If it were true, the... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...75 "My author and disposer, what thou biddest Unargued I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, thou thy wonted state. With even step and (Bk. IV, 1. 635-638) FaBV 76 With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change,... | |
| James Turner - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 368 pages
..."My Author and Disposer, what thou bidd'st / Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains, / God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (4:635-8). If there is no society among unequals, then Eve's articulate expression of unquestioned... | |
| Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...and Disposer," and declaring, what thou bidd'st Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains. God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. (4:442-43. 635-38) God's instructions to Raphael specify that the angel is to "Converse with Adam,"... | |
| Bonnie Wheeler - Art - 1993 - 372 pages
...adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey; so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. ,6 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1 983) on 'rational delight,' pp 22-57; on Ovid and Narcissus,... | |
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