 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc'd,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...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.' 1 1 Milton (from the Circumcision). 2 Tanered and Sigismunda. 3 Scott. 4 Ledyard. * Bulwer. CHAP. XV.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that e Taught her the savage nature to forget : Hence styl'd the Scudainorcan : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenonc'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,... | |
 | Richard Cobbold - 1848 - 72 pages
...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 Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her, Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 386 pages
...many good people may deem a full equivalent, namely, wisdom and skill, " So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." And perhaps the rest of this noble description may be not unfitly applied to her:— " Authority and... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know tier own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 550 As one intended first, not after made 555 Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of... | |
 | 1849 - 240 pages
...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, And create an awe about her as a guard angelic placed." Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. A... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pages
...Her loveliness, so absolute 8 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 " Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her " Loses discount'nanc'd,... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...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 Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
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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. 
