 Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous Lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure,...  The Monthly Register, Magazine, and Review, of the United States - Page 1761807Full view - About this book
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...Revolution in 1777 -so captured American imagination as these lines from the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just and Pure Relations... | |
 | Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 pages
...from the Catholic tradition, Milton proceeds to give his famous apostrophe (address) to wedded love: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just and pure, Relations dear,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man? (Bk. IV, 1. 738-749) FF; TOP 78 Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...own) anxiety, the narrator strenuously defends innocent "wedded love" against its sinful counterfeits: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of Human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range. . . . Here Love his golden shaft imploys, here lights... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 pages
...other mysteries of his theme, Milton gives pride of place to the generative promise of chaste union: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...voyeurism, but only "weens" or supposes what happens. But he is perfectly straightforward in his praise of "wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety /in Paradise" (4.750-52). One reason many commentators thought that Adam and Eve fell on the day they were made (in... | |
 | James Innell Packer - 1994 - 372 pages
...softness she, and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him. Now the invocation: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to rage, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear,... | |
 | Sheldon Brivic - 1995 - 180 pages
...invocation to the combination of marriage and love in Book FV of Paradise Lost, as Adam and Eve copulate: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of human...all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just, and Pure,... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...love': Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-elemental beam [. . .] Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human...sole propriety In paradise of all things common else [...] (Ill, 1.2 and IV, 1.750; Fowler, 1968, pp.141 and 240) But why is imagination recognized here?... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - 1996 - 422 pages
...creation. Their sexual partnership is the singular instance of productive private property in the poem: "mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring,...propriety / In Paradise of all things common else" (4.750-2). Such "sole propriety" is implicitly constructed as a mutual ownership which may be perfectly... | |
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