 Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.  The Spectator - Page 123by Joseph Addison - 1856Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...other creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; 650 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses disoount'nauc'd,... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...following rapture : -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do,...falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses, discounter! an c'd, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...inward less exact. • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shews : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...less exact. (6.521. —When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so ahsolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, hest: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...dignity and love. Ibid. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Lose discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows. Ibid, Her heav'nly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...other creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her 537. — at... | |
 | Mrs. Catherine George Ward Mason - 1825 - 976 pages
...— • — " Vet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute the seems. And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : 560 All higher knowledge in her presence fall* Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
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