...grandchild both — (Ye) Amply have merited of me, of all The infernal umpire. (1) IV, 756. (2) IV, 320 : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born, His sons : the fairest of her daughters Eve. They sat them...

...in the dale. . . . Nor, when Paradise Lost appeared more than twenty years later, had the note gone: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft...

...pure, 104 And banisht from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence. So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel,...pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's imbraces met, Adam the goodliest man of men since born His Sons, the fairest of her Daughters Eve....

...the dale. . . .' Nor, when 'Paradise Lost' appeared more than twenty years later, had the note gone: 'So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of...

...man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! So passed they naked on, nor shunned the sight Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met — Adam the goodliest man of men...

...first parents. Nothing could be more simply passionate than the summing up of this great description: So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met, . . . Adam's reception of Raphael in Book V gives Milton the opportunity to emphasize the beauty of...

...~ ' f ' i Nor those mysterious Parts were then conceal'd, Then was not guilty Shame, — So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the Sight Of God or Angel, for they thought no ID. (Book IV, 312-5) Brähmana afterwards addressing this woman, prevailed upon her to become his wife,...

...seeming pure, And banisht from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence. So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill. (4.312-320) The untroubled vision that purifies the world was there in the beginning, before the triggering...

...mans life his happiest life, Simplicitie and spotless innocence. So passd they naked on, nor shund the sight Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they passd, the lovliest pair That ever since in loves imbraces met, Adam the goodliest man of men since born His Sons,...

...free intercourse with heaven. Formerly, in "simplicity and spotless innocence," Adam and Eve "pass'd naked on, nor shunn'd the sight / Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill" (4.31820). Now, by contrast, guilty Man bewails: How shall I behold the face Henceforth of God or Angel,...