 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...authority — 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. Par. Lost, iv. 321. In the lowest deep a lower deep. Ibid. iv. 76. Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama :... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...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. Adam, simple and sublime, instructed by Heaven, and drawing his experience from God, has but one weakness,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...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 sido sou œil sublime,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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 en grappe d'une... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Campbell - Bible - 1837 - 612 pages
...' the mother died last of the sons.' This is of a piece with that of our poet : Adam the comeliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. For my part, I think it much better, in criticising, to acknowledge these to be slips in writing, than... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...you' ? For what is he speaking to besides Shame ? Jfewton. 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 whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat... | |
 | Henry Brooke - Irish fiction - 1839 - 352 pages
...speaking of Adam and Eve, he calls them •" 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." Th» gentleman perceived my astonishment, and praciously smiling, again asked me what s\im wa< requisite... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...on, nor shunned the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill. So hand in hand they passed ; * * Adam, the goodliest man of men, since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve. Milton. SENTIMENT OF BEAUTY. SOME there are, who contend that the laws of taste are not primitive,... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
