 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 páginas
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse with her. Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 páginas
...; who, though he asserts his superiority of reason in his debates with the mother of mankind, adds, -Yet when I approach * Her loveliness, so absolute...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | 1811 - 550 páginas
...desires by which our sex is debased. It is thus that Adam describes the sanctity of our first parent : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanced,... | |
 | 1811 - 574 páginas
...the incomparable Milton, " Understood, in the prime end " Of nature, Her the inferior, in the mind " And inward faculties, which most excel ; " In outward...expressing " The character of that dominion given " O'er other creatures :" But he was still sensible of an influence that she exerted over him, more... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 páginas
...of inward less exact When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself compleat, 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 in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd,... | |
 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 páginas
...and unmov'd, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vrrtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 páginas
...of releasing her husband from his unjust captivity. c 5 CHAP. CHAP- III. • ":'. •'• ; ' ' • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...And in herself complete ; so well to know Her own, thtit what shc wills to ilo or vay Seems wisest, virtuousest, djscreetest, best ; All higher knowledge... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 páginas
...charncter of that dominion giren 545 O'er other creatnres ; yetwt"n I appronch Her loveliness, so absolnte she seems And in herself complete, so well to know...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vi rtnonsest, discrer test, hest ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 páginas
...as if they had been made for no other place. And to all this mental enrichment she adds the skill " So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Portia's consciousness of power does indeed render her cool, collected, and firm, but never a whit... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 páginas
...of inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime endOf Nature her the inferior, 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,... | |
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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... 
