...the center giving the order its value: With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and thir change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn,...rising sweet, With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,...

...author and disposer', she says to Adam in Book 4, 'what thou bid'st / Unargued I obey; so God ordains, / God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise' (635-8). Is this allegation to be taken as the ventriloquization of a poet who thought that 'all believers'...

...Devotion (Book 9) stand out as encapsulated pieces of lyrical poetry. Here are Eve's words in Book IV: With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons...rising sweet With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,...

...following address to Adam: 'My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordains— God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more. Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity and wickedness. If it were true, the...

...allowed the triple fallacy to be imposed upon her What thou biddest Unargued I obey: so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. The average husband of recent years — probably the best the world has yet produced — is a victim...

...husbands are as God, then wives must be obedient, and find their purposes in what their husbands wish. 'God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' 62 That way of looking at things has strongly influenced anthropological and ethological discourse....

...Adam in Paradise Lost, Milton has a positive statement followed mmediately by a negative variation: Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,...

...hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton PARADISE LOST Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,...

...Milton's Eve, a hundred lines after Satan's bitter curse. With thee conversing, I forget all time, 640 All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet...rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...

...orbital relationships with the Sun (Figs. 2,2, 7.2-7.4). 8 BREATHING PLANET With thee conversing 1 forget all time. All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, . . . —John Milton (1867). Paradise Lost. Book IV CIRCUMPOLAR CYCLONE Solar radiation is the principal...