 | Susannah B. Mintz - 2003 - 276 ページ
...so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 ページ
...to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her 518. amorous Bird of Night: the 532. Adam finds himself superior to nightingale. Cf. V, 39-41, n. and... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 ページ
...tells him this in loving dialogue (4.639). But Adam feels the risk, as he tries to explain to Raphael: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Looses discount'nanc't, and like folly shewes. (PL 8.551-53) Raphael is unimpressed by Adam's argument,... | |
 | Barnes & Noble, Mary Wollstonecraft - 2004 - 284 ページ
...changes the nature of things: 57 That what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded....like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait. And all this is built on her loveliness! In the middle rank of life, to continue the comparison, men,... | |
 | Victoria Kahn - 2009 - 392 ページ
...so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanc't, and like folly shows. (8.530-53) Adam experiences the force of passion as a personal... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2005 - 441 ページ
...so wall to know Her own, that what she wills to dt> or say Seems wisest, rirttioasest, discreetest, best, All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded...reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after matte OeeasionaEy ; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her,... | |
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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 : All higher knowledge in her presence falls... 
