 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.  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 282edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 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 seems,...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1818 - 588 pages
...audjtress, Her husband the relator she preferred.' L 6 " Well - " Well might Adam exclaim — • -' When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what the wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show • Elaborate, of inward less exact. , When T approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose*!, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...her bestow,d Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. — — When 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose.st, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 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 seems,...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliaess, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so welt to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, diacreetest, best ; 559 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in... | |
 | 1822 - 496 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 seems,...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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. (6.521. —When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...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... | |
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