 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 460 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman, — " He does... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...ideal, had been disappointed in woman. In the words, frequently repeated as a specimen of a bull— " Adam, the goodliest man of men, since born His sons — the fairest of her daughters Eve."— He has unwittingly described the process by which his mind created them. Adam is the goodliest of his... | |
 | John Hunter - English language - 1848 - 224 pages
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" '• Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians j " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve."—Milton, PL book iv. 6. Whether we should say " The fine first books," or " The first five books,"... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...and eye sublime declared Absolute rule * • * Simplicity and spotless innocence." Such was : — " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born " His Sons the fairest of her daughter Eve." Since creation's dawn, but one other perfect Incarnate Form to earth descended: " Altogether... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...expression justified by high anthority — " So band in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met, Adam the goodliest man of...born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." Par. Last, iv. 321. " In the lotvest deep a lower deep." Ibid. iv. 76. " Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...Angel ; for they thought no ill : 320 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of...since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1898 - 712 pages
...language is to be found in the well-known lines which occur in Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' iv. 323:— Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons : the fairest of her daughters Eve. As a matter of course bigoted defenders of all that is to be found in the great classics of •all... | |
 | 1849 - 514 pages
...graced with forms of princely majesty and queenly beauty, only inferior to the pair " imparadised:" " Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve." Genius at once fired and refi/ied by these living models, will produce other models, artificial. Then... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1906 - 562 pages
...Schwestern die beste." In English the classical instance occurs in 'Paradise Lost,' iv. 323-4 :— Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Hazlitt ('English Poets,' rj. 374) writes: "Moral poetry is the highest of all others " ; and I have... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...wherein he speaks of Satan : -God and his Son except, And that in which he describes Adam and Eve : " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." It is plain, that in the former of these passages, according to the natural syntax, the divine persons... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
