 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1854 - 520 pages
...himself, in surveying the furniture of this globe, as struck with the beauty of the^rst happy pair. " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect! with native honor clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all. And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine, The image of their... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1855 - 232 pages
...to sell, and we see the counterpart of his folly in those gentlemen who think with the scissors or 9 shears to extract the soul and life-blood of our literature....battlements — the marshalling of the " radiant files of those celestial warriors " — the great arch enemy, himself a host ; the impending crisis, enlisting... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 240 pages
...the counterpart of his folly in those gentlemen who think with the scissors or 9 MR. SMITH'S LECTURE. shears to extract the soul and life-blood of our literature....battlements — the marshalling of the " radiant files of those celestial warriors " — the great arch enemy, himself a host ; 'the impending crisis, enlisting... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1855 - 516 pages
...exist between two beings whom God has formed to be companions through this earthly pilgrimage. " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all, And worthy eeem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - Apologetics - 1856 - 780 pages
...penetrated into the terrestrial paradise, surveys the animals of the new creation. Among these, Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad, In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed : for in their looks divine The image of their... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...distinguishable in other respects ; and hence an erect posture is a sign or expression of dignity : Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad, In naked majesty, scem'd lords of all.—Paradiee Lost, Book iv. • [Well has Cousin remarked :—"... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Women - 1861 - 200 pages
...Past Jordan. . . . The world's old; But the old world waits the hour to be renewed. AURORA LEIGH Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, — Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty, — seemed lords of all t And worthy seemed ,• for in their looks divine The image... | |
 | Julius Lloyd - 1862 - 146 pages
...innocence, we can hardly do otherwise than follow the description of Milton's wonderful poem : " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all: And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their... | |
 | John Milton - 1867 - 598 pages
...where the fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures new to sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all, And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their... | |
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Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe... 
