 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
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...told that she was inferior to him 'in the mind / And inward faculties', he confessed to Raphael : 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...embodiment of the divine image (8.540-6). From another perspective, however, Eve appears perfect: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. (546-50) Adam is misled by the outward image of Eve, from which Eve... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - Religion - 1996 - 508 pages
...Milton, often dismissed as a dour Puritan, puts a speech about Eve on Adam's lips that says it all. 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... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...goddess, almost (though Adam does not say it) a rival to the divine power of the Father and the Son: 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... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 540 pages
...most Excell; ... yet when I approach I !er loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest. best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded (Mil, 540-52) Adam's... | |
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