 Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 68by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he and valour form'd ; For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for...God in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthiue locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 388 pages
...severe and pure; Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd : For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for...God in him. His fair large front, and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthin locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd; For contemplation he and valour form'd ; For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for...God in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...author seems to have borrowed some parts of his description ." For contemplation he, and valour form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He...for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock many hung Clust'»ing,... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - Literature - 1812 - 340 pages
...marriage, * _. -though both Not equal, as their sexes not equal: For contemplation he, and valour form'dj For softness she, and sweet attractive grace : He for God only, she for God in him. than that which terminates the first ode of Thomson upon Spring ? What deep awful meditations... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd; For contemplation he and valour fomTd, For softness she ami sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; andhyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...men ; though both Net equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valour form'd ; For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for...sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Hound from his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad : She, as... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...men : though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace . He for God only, she for God in him. Were the pauses of the sense and sound in this passage but a little better assorted, nothing... | |
 | Archibald Alison - France - 1816 - 380 pages
...,'; Not equal, its their sex not equal seemed, For valour He, and contemplation, formed, For beauty She, and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, She for God in Him. These words were said of our first parents by our greatest poet, after the influence of a pure... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...severe and pure ; Severe, but in true filial freedom plae,d : For contemplation he and valour form,d, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for...God in him. His fair large front, and eye sublime, declar"d Absolute rule: and hyacinthin locks Ronnd from his parted forelock manly hung Clust,ring,... | |
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