| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 202 páginas
...honor. This is still nobler than Milton's view, in that exquisite passage, where Adam saya of Eve, " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 páginas
...side subducting, took perhaps More than enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanc'd,... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet when 1 approach Her loveliness, BO absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in dtscourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 páginas
...the prime end Of nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel : Tn outward also her resembling less His image who made...less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete,... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 512 páginas
...inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end Of nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel : In outward...less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete,... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 510 páginas
...inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end Of nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel : In outward...less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolu te she seems, And in herself... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 páginas
...pre-eminence, as being first in the creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, [hat what she wills lu do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuouseal, discrectcst, best. АИ higher knowledge... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 páginas
...inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end Of nature her the inferiour, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel : In outward...also her resembling less His image who made both, und less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach... | |
| Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 páginas
...perfection. Its rare delicacy and beauty reader it a suitable emblem of Mental Beauty. MENTAL BEAUTY. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 páginas
...you and I used to select as, perhaps, the most touching of all descriptions of a husband's love. " When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Such was the opinion of Adam of his wife, before his happiness was murdered by her forfeiting it ;... | |
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