 | Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 pàgines
...so well to know Her 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 with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2002 - 314 pàgines
...changes the nature of things "That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded....like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait." And all this is built on her loveliness! (VRW 5:128-9; PL 8.549-54, her italics) 172 In a pattern of... | |
 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - 2001 - 394 pàgines
...complete, so well to know Her 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 with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pàgines
...know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;0 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Susannah B. Mintz - 2003 - 276 pàgines
...so well to know Her 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 with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pàgines
...to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrcetest, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pàgines
...to know Her 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 discourse with her 518. amorous Bird of Night: the 532. Adam finds himself superior to nightingale. Cf. V, 39-41, n. and... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pàgines
...tells him this in loving dialogue (4.639). But Adam feels the risk, as he tries to explain to Raphael: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Looses discount'nanc't, and like folly shewes. (PL 8.551-53) Raphael is unimpressed by Adam's argument,... | |
 | Victoria Kahn - 2009 - 392 pàgines
...so well to know Her 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 with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows. (8.530-53) Adam experiences the force of passion as a personal... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2005 - 441 pàgines
...higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her. loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after matte OeeasionaEy ; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her,... | |
| |
O'er other creatures. 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. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... 
