 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pàgines
...anthority — " So band 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." Par. Last, iv. 321. " In the lotvest deep a lower deep." Ibid. iv. 76. " Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama... | |
 | 1898 - 712 pàgines
...language is to be found in the well-known lines which occur in Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' iv. 323:— Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons : the fairest of her daughters Eve. As a matter of course bigoted defenders of all that is to be found in the great classics of •all... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pàgines
...wherein he speaks of Satan : -God and his Son except, And that in which he describes Adam and Eve : " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." It is plain, that in the former of these passages, according to the natural syntax, the divine persons... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pàgines
...precisely the same sort of impropriety into which Milton hath fallen in these words : " Adam, The comeliest man of men, since born His sons. The fairest of her daughters Eve."* And in these : »j ^ &** '"-* "' " The loveliest pair ' I. a in -•• That ever since in love's embraces... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pàgines
...gives — Bentley's very reasonable censure of a well-known bull which all the world has laughed at : ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.' NOTE 26. Page 78. Bentley, upon grounds which are satisfactory, and most elaborately developed, fixes... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 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.3 Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain-side They sat... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 602 pàgines
...ill : 300 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovlicst pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Kve. Under a tuft of shade that on a gre6n 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 302 pàgines
...3M So hand in hand they pass'tl, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's en. braces met ; Admix the goodliest man of men since born His sons ' the fairest of her daughters Kve. Under ,i tuft of shade that on a green 323 Stcct? whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side Thiy... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 pàgines
...So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam thxe 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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pàgines
...hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met; A'i.iin the lovli.-st man of men since born His sons; the fairest of her daughters, Eve, Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. When these two more... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
