 Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe,...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 124by John Milton - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...inquiring whence it comes, or by what power it is bestowed . — Johnson. DCCXVCIII. (Adam and Eve.) Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect,...honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all, And worthy seem'd; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...inquiring whence it comes, or by what power it is bestowed .—Johnson. DCCXVCIII. (Adam and Eve.) Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect,...honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all, And worthy seem'd; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...being, And liv'd : one came, methought, of shape divine, SOD 117 ADAM AND EVE IN PARADISE. MILTON. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect...honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'dj for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...shining rock, A whole day's journey :high, hut wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the fiend, -Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange. Two of far nohler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords... | |
 | Ashbel Green - Catechisms - 1829 - 440 pages
...each other. The true lelation of the sexes, is most beautifully and justly described by Milton — "Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked* majesty seemed lords of all, * " Why should our garments, made to hide Our parents' shame, provoke our pride... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...stlf, but honour'e semblance base, Vor soun it vanished like an empty shade. Fletcher's Purple Island. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Godlike erect ! with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all. J/iiton. Therefore with manlier objects we must try His constancy, with such that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...s<-lf, but hottour's semblance base. For soon it vanished like an empty shade. Fletcher's Purple Island. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect! with native honour clad lu naked majesty, seemed lords of all. Mi>: t. Therefore with manlier objects we must try His constancy,... | |
 | 1830 - 474 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 586 pages
...touched with a yet finer and more delicate pencil, the persons of our first parents in Paradise : — " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect,...honour clad, In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone ; Truth, wisdom,... | |
| |
