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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 : All higher knowledge in her presence falls... "
Oeuvres complètes de m. le vicomte de Chateaubriand: Le Paradis Perdu de Milton - Page 176
by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837
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Paradise Lost: A Poem

John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...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 D ' Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded;...on her wait, As one intended first, not after made 555 Occasionally; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest,...
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Holiness: Or, The Legend of St. George: a Tale from Spencer's [!] Faerie Queene

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Children's stories - 1836 - 202 pages
...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...shows. Authority and reason on her wait As one intended first.11 But Spencer " knows not seems." Una is more than Eve. Innocence and truth melt into one, to...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...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, discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first not...
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A history of the holy Bible, with an intr., additional notes and ..., Volume 137

Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...know Her own, that what she wills to do, or ьау. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, liest. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait. As one intended first, but...
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Le paradis perdu, Volume 1

John Milton - 1837 - 512 pages
...ses droits, que ce qu'elle veut Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best .All higher knowledge iu her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse...all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat ßuild in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. " To whom the angel...
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Paradis perdu: de Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1837 - 510 pages
...that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtumisest, discreetest, best : All higher knowleelge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse...like folly shows ; Authority and reason on her wait, Asone intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, « mière fois je sentis...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1837 - 380 pages
...higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait. As one intended first not after made VOL. II. K Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness their seat Build...
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The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover ...

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 pages
...wisest, virtuouaeet, discreeteet, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdoni in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait If there is such a native loveliness in the sex, as to make them victorious even when they are in the...
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The Spectator, no. 315-635

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 478 pages
...*o well lo know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Beerns wisest, virttiousest, dtscreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discounlenanc'd, and like folly shows: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not...
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