 | David D. Gilmore - Misogyny - 2001 - 284 pages
...Peopl'd highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature? And not fill the World at once With men, as Angels, without feminine? (Paradise Lost, 10.881-89) Milton's misogyny has been the subject of numerous critical studies, in... | |
 | Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...Adam wishes that God had filled the earth only with men. The exact quotation is: "O why did God . . . not fill the World at once With men as Angels without Feminine." 46. Religio Medici, part 2, sect. 9, Keynes, vol. 1, p. 83. Dame Dorothy proved a good wife, a fruitful... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 314 pages
...peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? (PL 10.888-95) The very deficiency of which he was once enamored... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine. Or find some other way to generate Mankind? this mischief had not then befallen, And more that shall befall,... | |
 | Randall Baldwin Clark - Philosophy - 2003 - 204 pages
...peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This noveltie on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With Men as Angels without Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? — Milton's Adam, upon learning of Eve's perfidy, Paradise Lost... | |
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O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate... 
