 | Charles Williams - 2005 - 208 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... | |
 | Charles Williams - 2005 - 134 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... | |
 | Marion Ann Taylor, Heather E. Weir - 2006 - 515 pàgines
...says of her to the angel Raphael: "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 34 The author of this couplet is unknown to us. Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008 - 17 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. (8.546-553) The alarm expressed by Raphael in the wake of such an admission makes... | |
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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... 
