 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 394 pages
...; 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 she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...enough, at least on her bestovv'd Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. 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'nanc'd,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1853 - 902 pages
...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...own, that what she wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtnousest, discreeteet, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures; yet, when I approach Her loveliness,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded! wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanc'd,... | |
 | MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - 1854 - 444 pages
...To me she might represent Milton's glorious picture of unfallen, perfect womanhood, in his Eve: — "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,... | |
 | William Hosmer - Women - 1854 - 322 pages
...to conduct,—the wise, just, symmetrical deportment which cannot be seen without being admired. • 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...prime end 540 " Of nature, her the inferior, in the mind " And inward faculties, which most excel ; " In outward also her resembling less " His image who...creatures : yet, when I approach " Her loveliness, so absolute3 she seems, " And in herself complete, so well to know " Her own, that what she wills to do... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 536 pages
...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...own, that what she wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtnousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness,...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given *• O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness,...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest, best : *'All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with... | |
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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... 
