 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1818 - 588 pages
...audjtress, Her husband the relator she preferred.' L 6 " Well - " Well might Adam exclaim — • -' When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what the wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show • Elaborate, of inward less exact. , When T approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose*!, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...her bestow,d Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. — — When 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose.st, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 348 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture: " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given ep ; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel, In outward also hi-r resembling less His image who made both, and less...545 O'er other creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliaess, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so welt to know Her own, that what she... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...inward less exact. For well I understand in the prime end 540 Of nature her th' inferior, in the mind And inward faculties, which most excel, In outward...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; 650 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses disoount'nauc'd,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...her resembling less His image who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness,...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced,... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses, discounter!... | |
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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... 
