 | James Turner - 1993 - Liczba stron: 368
...power over him which verges on the "absolute rule" which his fair large front purportedly declares: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. The metrical awkwardness of the final line exposes the immense struggle involved in articulating equal... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 2013 - Liczba stron: 146
...Paradise Lost Reconsidered," 321). Adam describes Eve as a woman who has completely enchanted him. that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,...with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows. Raphael rebukes Adam for exalting Eve above her position in the scale of nature. Adam allows her to... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - Liczba stron: 396
...herself complete,'17 by possessing all these frivolous accomplishments, so changes the nature of things That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,...falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and, like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait.' — 18 And all this is... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - Liczba stron: 508
...Milton, often dismissed as a dour Puritan, puts a speech about Eve on Adam's lips that says it all. when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - Liczba stron: 230
...embodiment of the divine image (8.540-6). From another perspective, however, Eve appears perfect: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. (546-50) Adam is misled by the outward image of Eve, from which Eve herself was initially called away... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - Liczba stron: 304
...goddess, almost (though Adam does not say it) a rival to the divine power of the Father and the Son: when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - 1998 - Liczba stron: 352
...glance" (8.528-59). In Adam's own self, and between Adam and Eve, a hierarchy must be kept (549-56): what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest,...falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - Liczba stron: 540
...most Excell; ... yet when I approach I !er loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest. best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded (Mil, 540-52) Adam's... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - 1998 - Liczba stron: 252
...case begins to draw to her in an ever-increasing flow all of the power of Adam's created world, until All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | David Williams - 1999 - Liczba stron: 534
...complete,' by possessing all these frivolous accomplishments, so changes the nature of things • 342 • That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest,...falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and, like Folly, shows; Authority and Reason on her wait.' And all this is built on... | |
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O'er 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... 
