 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Had lively shadow'd. ADAM'S DESCRIPTION (MILTON.) YET when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuonsest, disc*-eetest best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er Qther creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so...herself complete, sO well to know Her own, that what the wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuOutest, discreetest, best ; $50 All higher knowledge in her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following tapture : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say, i Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 388 pages
...in outward show elaborate, of inward less exact. — — When I approach Her loveliness, so.absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, disereeteat, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute >he seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreete«t, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom m discourse with... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness,...she seems And in herself complete, so well to know I Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...desires by which our sex is debased. It is thus that Adam describes the sanctity of our first parent : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanced,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse with her. Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 pages
...; who, though he asserts his superiority of reason in his debates with the mother of mankind, adds, -Yet when I approach * Her loveliness, so absolute...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | John Ovington - Marriage - 1813 - 168 pages
...and unmov'd, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vrrtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
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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... 
