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
| Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 334 pages
...worthy spinsters are seated in expectation of the arrival of their friend. CHAPTER IX. -" Though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed—- For contemplation...formed; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." MILTOK. Vr HAT can have come over Lady MacLaughlan ?" said Miss Grizzy, as she sat at the window in... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...men ; though both Not equal, an 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 (!od in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round... | |
| Charlotte Anne Eaton - Rome (Italy) - 1820 - 410 pages
...command. Milton seems to have had in view his divine form, in his description of our First Parent— " His fair large front, and eye sublime, declared Absolute...from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad." His is not merely the rude power of physical strength, that nerves... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 408 pages
...man." Milton thus portrays our first parent, Adam : " His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad." 2 [It is strange, that the picture drawn by the unlearned... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...man." Milton thus portrays our first parent, Adam : " His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad." 2 [It is strange, that the picture drawn by the unlearned... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valor fonn'd; For softness she and sweet attractive grace : He for...from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. She, as a veil, down to the slender waist Her unadorned golden tresses... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 292 pages
...men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valor form'd; For softness she and sweet attractive grace : He for...sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Bound from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. She, as... | |
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