 Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike 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, (Severe,...  Milton's Legacy - Page 57edited by - 2005 - 257 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 350 pages
...model, (imagined on the ground of just analogy,) and own a parent's care over our terrestrial domain. " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad, In native majesty seemed lords of all." And a benevolent Sovereign reigning over all creation, we should... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 358 pages
...model, (imagined on the ground of just analogy,) and own a parent's care over our terrestrial domain. " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad, In native majesty seemed lords of all." And a benevolent Sovereign reigning over all creation, we should... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...264-268) 7) the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange: — can heal — For 'tis His institution — and...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 344 pages
...of realization left Empson sceptical. I had quoted the f1rst appearace of Adam and Eve in the poem: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honours clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The... | |
 | James Turner - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 368 pages
...baffling blend of mutuality and hierarchy. First, they are distinguished as a pair from the other animals: "Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, / Godlike erect, with native Honor clad / In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all." Yet cognizance of their comparatively equal stature... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...288-355), a passage that opens with the following moderate puritan treatment of the issue of authority: Two of far nobler shape erect and 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... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...By being obedient to Adam, Eve is not inferior, for in her, as well as in Adam: "The image of thir glorious Maker shone,/ Truth, Wisdom, Sanctitude severe and pure,/ Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't" (Milton 1957b: 4. 293-295). Eve is able to see beyond Adam to God who has made her in his image.... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...where the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, 290 And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
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