| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pàgines
...ill : 330 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest 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 shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat... | |
| Abraham Tucker - 1831 - 518 pàgines
...out into poetical license : they would whip a boy who should write, like Milton, Adam the godlisst man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve ; or reckon only three syllables in Tiresias, or four in Beelzebub, or place their accent in the middle... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 354 pàgines
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman. — " He does... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pàgines
...thought no ill : 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 shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain-side They sat them... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 pàgines
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman. — " He does... | |
| James Henry Monk - 1833 - 490 pàgines
...but two instances, taken casually, and without selection. The first is his note upon B. IV. 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. We have had too much trial of his busy acquaintance,... | |
| James Henry Monk - 1833 - 490 pàgines
...but two instances, taken casually, and without selection. The first is his note upon B. IV. 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. We have had too much trial of his busy acquaintance,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 440 pàgines
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — 'Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman.... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 444 pàgines
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — 'Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest at' his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes."... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pàgines
...thought no ill : 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 shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side son œil sublime,... | |
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