 | David Glimp - Demography - 2003 - 264 pages
...peopl'd highest Heav'n 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? this mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall,... | |
 | Fritz Oehlschlaeger - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...creation in clay comes Adam's blaming Eve for their plight. Why, he asks, could God not have filled "the World at once / With Men as Angels without Feminine, / Or find some other way to generate / Mankind?" (ll. 892-895). He Knew He Was Right includes a Satan figure,... | |
 | Francis C. Blessington - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 161 pages
...highest Heav'n 80 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? this mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall,... | |
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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... 
