 Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe,...  Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland, Switzerland ... - Page 114by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 pages
...himself, in surveying the furniture of this globe, as struck with the beauty of the first happy pair. " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect...And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine, The im;if of their glorious Maker, shone Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure; Severe, but in true... | |
 | James L. Kugel - 1990 - 268 pages
...describes Adam and Eve among the other creatures in Eden, they meet the epic requirement without stint. Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honor clad In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all, And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious Maker shone.... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 pages
...Eve (with a certain self-conscious insistence on what was then possible) in Paradise before the Fall: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majestic seemed Lords of all, His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar'd Absolute... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pages
...beauty mystique. Adam and Eve are beautiful in paradise before the Fall (Paradise Lost, Bk. 4: 288ff): Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. (Bk. IV, 1. 264-268) 7) the Fiend honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...baffling blend of mutuality and hierarchy. First, they are distinguished as a pair from the other animals: "Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, / Godlike erect, with native Honor clad / In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all." Yet cognizance of their comparatively equal stature vanishes in a declaration... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 pages
...shining rock, A whole day's journey high, but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures new to sight and strange. (4.247-87) Milton aims first to flood our senses with vernal delight; beyond such proliferation, he... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 pages
...of realization left Empson sceptical. I had quoted the f1rst appearace of Adam and Eve in the poem: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honours clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...Satan being notably unhappy in a situation where they could be supposed to be happy: where the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living Creatures new to sight and strange: In response Adam elaborates his own reasoning, linking numerology, solitude and self-sufficiency: Thou... | |
 | Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 pages
...constitution of the two characters as they first appear nearly one-third of the way through Paradise Lost: 'Two of far nobler shape erect and tall / Godlike erect, with native Honour clad'.9 This language is proudly hierarchical, with the stature of the pair superior to that... | |
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