 Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Pàgina 282editat per - 1829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pàgines
...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 seems,...own, that what she wills to do, or say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 pàgines
...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 she...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 724 pàgines
...mankind, adds, -Yet when I approach Her loveimsM, so absolute ehr seems. And in herself complete; BO well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, -Seems wisest, virtuousest, disereetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pàgines
...enough ; at least on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pàgines
...made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given 545 O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...own, that what she wills to do or say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in... | |
 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 pàgines
...unmov'd, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...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... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pàgines
...of releasing her husband from his unjust captivity. c 5 CHAP. CHAP- III. • ":'. •'• ; ' ' • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...And in herself complete ; so well to know Her own, thtit what shc wills to ilo or vay Seems wisest, virtuousest, djscreetest, best ; All higher knowledge... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pàgines
...charncter of that dominion giren 545 O'er other creatnres ; yetwt"n I appronch Her loveliness, so absolnte she seems And in herself complete, so well to know...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vi rtnonsest, discrer test, hest ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pàgines
...as if they had been made for no other place. And to all this mental enrichment she adds the skill " So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Portia's consciousness of power does indeed render her cool, collected,... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pàgines
...who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse... | |
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