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" O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ... - Page 89
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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Oxford: A Poem

Robert Montgomery - Oxford (England) - 1831 - 338 pages
...Crooked by Nature, bent as now appears More to the part sinister, — and that Adam dared to ask - why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven...novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not nil the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine > — We now arrive at the last of by-gone...
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Herodotus

Herodotus, William Beloe - Greece - 1831 - 524 pages
...as Jenysus,' bably extorted from our great poet, Milton, the following energetic lines : Oh, V.-11J did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven,...masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defei-t Of nature, and not nil the world at once With men as anReis, without feminine, Or find some...
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Oxford, a poem. (Poetical works of R. Montgomery).

Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...that peopled highest heaven With spirlts masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fnlr defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ?— We now arrive at the last of by-gone English poets from whose works we shall select instances...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. .QI why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With Men, as...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem

John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...to the part sinister, from me drawn; Well it thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O! why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest...world at once With men, as angels, without feminine j Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This mischief had not then befall'n And more that shall...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...hostility to the female sex, that no other reason would so naturally account for it. He exclaims, " O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest...world at once With men as angels without feminine ?" Milton adds a great deal more, which, if he had a high opinion of woman, even his anxiety to make...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 5

1839 - 876 pages
...evidently paraphrased the concluding sentiment of Jason's second speech, in those well-known lines : " O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest...masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair detect Of nature," Sec. kc. Pandiie Ltit, t Poets, who copy from nature and truth, very often agree...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...to the part sinister, from me drawn; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as...
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Oxford, a poem. (Poetical works of R. Montgomery).

Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 pages
...rib Crooked by Nature, bent as now appears More to the part sinister, — and that Adam dared to ask -why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven...masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defeet Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine? — We now...
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Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost

Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...aberration, even if it does enable generation. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of nature, and fill the World at once With Men as Angels without Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?...
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