| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 páginas
...; 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...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 páginas
...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...say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse with her. Loses, discountenanced,... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 páginas
...the prime endr 540 Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind v And inward faculties, which most excel ; In outward also her resembling less His image who...knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in diseoune with ber Ixwes discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows , Authority and reason on her wait, As... | |
| John Ovington - 1813 - 168 páginas
...and unmov'd, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vrrtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 páginas
...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 discounteuanc'd,... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given ep ; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 páginas
...in the prime end 540 Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel, In outward also her resembling less His image who...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; 650 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses disoount'nauc'd,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...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 discountenanced,... | |
| 1822 - 496 páginas
...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...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses, discounter!... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 páginas
...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,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd,... | |
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