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" Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 196
by Joseph Addison - 1804
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Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...falls Degraded; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait. As one intended first, not...consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat, Built in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. And this is the being...
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The character of woman, in a lecture

Richard Cobbold - 1848 - 72 pages
...her, Loses discountenanced, and like folly shews. Authority and reason on her wait, As one created first, not after made Occasionally ; and to consummate...create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed !" — Book viii. (546.) If this be not the very acme of the ideality of perfection, where shall we...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ...

John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 550 As one intended first, not after made 555 Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of...create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. To whom the Angel with contracted brow : 660 Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part ; Do thou but...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...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 made 555 Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...falls Loses discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows, Degraded, wisdom m discourse with her Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made 555 Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Build in her...
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Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ...

John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her " Loses discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows : " Authority and reason on her wait, " As one intended first, not...seat •" Build in her loveliest, and create an awe 559 " About her, as a guard angelic plac'd." i See Samson Agonisles, 1023.— (JY.) * It seems that...
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The Quote Sleuth: A Manual for the Tracer of Lost Quotations

Anthony W. Shipps - Reference - 1990 - 216 pages
...shook the stage, and made the people stare? Cato's long wig, flowered gown, and lacquered chair!4. "Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build...create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed."" 5. 'Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms'—'1 6. "And darkness was the buryer of the dead.""...
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Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. (546-59) This is, in no small part, the voice of infatuation. But Adam's "uxoriousness," which makes...
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A Gust for Paradise: Milton's Eden and the Visual Arts

Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...But Adam does not feel superior to Eve or limit her freedom: "Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat / Build in her loveliest, and create an awe / About her, as a guard Angelic plac'd" (8.557-59). Adam's admiring speeches and Eve's grateful ones show their capacity to illustrate...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...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...consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Bin Id in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.' To whom the Angel,...
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