 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...happiness, if this be so, And Eden were no Eden thus expos'd. To whom thus Adam fervently repli'd. O Woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them, his creating hand Nothing imperfet or deficient left Of all that he Created, much less Man, Or aught that might his happy State... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...sincere, Thus her reply with accent sweet renewd. To whom thus Adamfervently repli'd. O Woman, besl are all things as the will Of God ordaind them, his creating hand Nothing imperfet or deficient left Of all that he Created, much less Man, Or ought that might his happie State... | |
 | Albert Adam Perdeck - English literature - 1928 - 122 pages
...unbending stand Beneath life's presure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more: The storms...quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all. This Christian faith, this assurance which leaves no doubt about Thomson's orthodoxy, we find also... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 308 pages
...unbending stand Beneath Life's Pressure, yet bear up a While, And what your bounded View, which only saw A little Part, deem'd Evil is no more: The Storms...quickly pass, And one unbounded SPRING encircle All. ("Winter," lines 1o63-9) For the last good season we have to be somewhere else, in another state of... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...for those above and care for those below. This is why Adam at last replies "fervently," exclaiming: O Woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordaind them, his creating hand Nothing imperfet or deficient left Of all that he Created . . . [9.343-46] The meaning of Eden, he says, has... | |
 | Albert Boime - Art - 1990 - 748 pages
...unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile. And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more: The storms...quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all. Thomson's Seasons consistently merges meteorological, geographical, and geological allusions with his... | |
 | Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...unreal wants" (1056-59), Thomson tells us, is that such class division within seasonality is natural: "The storms of wintry time will quickly pass, / And one unbounded Spring encircle all" (1068-69). Collier's representation of domestic labor radically undermines such religio-political "consolation."... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...the glorious Morn! the second Birth / Of Heaven, and Earth") to merely predicted epiphany (1068-69: "The Storms of WINTRY TIME will quickly pass, / And one unbounded SPRING encircle All"). To the eighteenth-century rhymester, even "ecstasies" arrive "by degrees."1' We are faced with a great... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her. (VIII.560-64) To whom thus Adam fervemly repli'd. 0 Woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them, his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficiem left Of all that he created, much less Man, Or aught that might his happie State secure, Secure... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 424 pages
...poet, Thomton, hath written — '• Yet bear up awliile. And what thy bounded view (which only sees A little part) deem'd evil is no more ; The storms...of wintry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded sprint' ro"irele All." The miserable theory of everlasting evil is born of narrow and incomplete conceptions... | |
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Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all... 
