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" Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister; from me drawn, Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits... "
Paradise lost, a poem. 2nd Scots ed - Page 289
by John Milton - 1746
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...Oh ! why did our 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 Mankind ? This mischief...
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 418 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 15

English literature - 1803 - 364 pages
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...found. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heav'n With spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once W^th men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? this mischief had...
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The British Essayists, Volume 11

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 398 pages
...— Oh ! why did our 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 onca With men, as angels, without feminine ? Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This mischief...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 438 pages
...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, And that most venerahle man, which I Did call my father, was...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...found. 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; Out of my sight, thou Serpent! That name best Befits thee with...
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Glover, Whitehead, Jago, Brooke, Scott, Mickle, Jenyns

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
..." O! why did God, Creator wise ! that peopled 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 ?" EVE. Forsake me not thus, Adam ! Witness Heav'n ! What love...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...Oh ! why did our 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 Mankind ? This mischief had...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 388 pages
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