 | Joseph Francis Kelly - Philosophy - 2002 - 260 pages
...serpent, but, more importantly, that God must be up to something to keep Adam and her from knowledge. "In plain, then, what forbids he but to know, / Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? / Such prohibitions bind not" tix. 758,601. Eve eats the fruit, thus disobeying God's command... | |
 | David Gay - Poetry - 2002 - 232 pages
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 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...thee more, while it infers the good By thee communicated, and our want: 755 For good unknown, sure is not had, or had And yet unknown, is as not had at...he but to know, Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? Such prohibitions bind not. But if Death 760 Bind us with after-bands, what profits then Our... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...thee more, while it infers the good By thee communicated, and our want: 755 For good unknown, sure is not had, or had And yet unknown, is as not had at...he but to know, Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? Such prohibitions bind not. But if Death 760 Bind us with after-bands, what profits then Our... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...thce more, while it infers the good0 By thee communicated, and our want: For good unknown, sure is not had, or had And yet unknown, is as not had at all. In plain then, what forbids he but to know,0 Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? Such prohibitions bind not. But if death 760 Bind us... | |
 | Susannah B. Mintz - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...behavior here as excessively self-important. 23. See also Eve's defense of free knowledge at 9.758-60: "In plain then, what forbids he but to know, / Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? / Such prohibitions bind not." One thinks of Aemilia Lanyer's radical claim, "If Eve did err,... | |
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For good unknown sure is not had, or had And yet unknown is as not had at all. In plain then, what forbids He but to know, Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise? Such prohibitions bind not. 
