...presently show, from the words he uses when conversing with the angel concerning her perfections. "Yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her, Loses discountenanced, and like folly shews. Authority and reason on her wait, As one created first, not...

...be taught ; this is selflearned, self-interpreting. Our first parent and lover addresses Eve — " When I approach her loveliness so absolute she seems....say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best, And create an awe about her as a guard angelic placed." Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A...

...character of that dominion given 545 O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, EO absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousost, discreetest, best : 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in...

...presented in the following pissage to be found at the end of the eighth Book of Paradise Lost : — When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...

...of that dominion giv'n " O'er other creatures : yet when I approach " Her loveliness, so absolute 8 she seems " And in herself complete ; so well to know...falls " Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her " Loses discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows : " Authority and reason on her wait, " As one intended first,...

...result. In short, a proper definition of the word discretion would exactly convey a just idea of my ' So absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best !" MILTON. Mrs. H. More says, " There is a large class of excellent female characters, who, on account...

...emotions tell him otherwise: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills...presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first,...

...power over him which verges on the "absolute rule" which his fair large front purportedly declares: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. The metrical awkwardness of the final line exposes the immense struggle involved in articulating equal...

...herself complete,'17 by possessing all these frivolous accomplishments, so changes the nature of things That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,...like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait.' — 18 And all this is built on her loveliness! In the middle rank of life, to continue the comparison,...

...Paradise Lost Reconsidered," 321). Adam describes Eve as a woman who has completely enchanted him. that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,...falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows. Raphael rebukes Adam for exalting Eve above her position in...