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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. "
Milton's Poetical Works - Page 210
by John Milton - 1853 - 661 pages
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...less His image who marie both, and less expressing The character of th .t dominion given O'erother creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtucusest, diicreeteot, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence fjls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...excel, la outward also her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The charafter of that dominion given O'er other creatures ; yet...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuosest, discreetest, best; 550 Ail higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Elaborate; of inward, less exact. For well I understand, in the prime end 540 Of nature, her th' inferor in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel...and less expressing The character of that dominion giv'n O'er other creatures ; yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Elaborate, of inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end 540 Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel,...less expressing The character of that dominion given 5V O'er other creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete,...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...at least on her bestowrd Too much of ornament, in outward sbow Elaborate, of inward less exact. • .When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her...
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The Friend of Women

Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert - Women - 1803 - 218 pages
...same duties, and candidate for the same happiness. Mark how woman is described by a Christian poet: When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetestr best I Neither her outside, form'd so fair, nor aught So much delights me as those graceful...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in the creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...she wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discrectest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse with her....
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The Tatler, Volume 2

English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...preeminence, as being first in creation and internal fa-' culties, breaks out into the following rapture : • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or doth, or says, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Elaborate, of inward less exact. « For well I understand in the prime end 54& Of Nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties which most excel,...expressing The character of that dominion given O'er Qther creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete,...
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The British Essayists;: Tatler

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...
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