 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy...image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanclilude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy...severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men : though both Not equal, as their sex not equal, seem'd ; For... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy...severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men : though both Not equal, as their sHx not equal, seem'd ; For... | |
 | James L. Kugel - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 268 pages
...requirement without stint. Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honor clad In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all, And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious Maker shone. (4.288-92) But later, lapsed powers and lost... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - Social Science - 1991 - 196 pages
...tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious...Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure — Even Satan, newly expelled from heaven, is at first still glorious and majestic (Bk. 1: 59ff; Bk.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; ute of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel - (1. 1-2) Safe i/i thei (Bk. IV, 1. 285-292) 72 Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious...severe and pure, Severe but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 344 pages
...tall, Godlike erect, with native honours clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious...shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure. Empson chose to follow Walter Raleigh and CS Lewis, believing that the portraiture was best left to... | |
 | David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 260 pages
...masculinity and Adam alone: Lords of all, And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious Maker shone, Truth, Wisdom, Sanctitude severe, and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't; Whence true autority in men. (IV.290-95) The above words, meant for both man and woman, primarily... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...also lurking, but Adam and Eve are more sturdily innocent. Milton defines original righteousness as "Truth, Wisdom, Sanctitude severe and pure, / Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't" (293-94). It includes, as he dramatized it and his contemporaries understood it, justice, honesty,... | |
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Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe,... 
