| Anne Louise Germaine Staël-Holstein (baronne de.) - 1812 - 344 sider
...marriage, * though both Not equal, as their sexes not equal : For contemplation he, and valour form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace : He for God only, she for God in him. 319 than that which terminates the first ode of Thomson upon Spring ? What deep awful meditations... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 sider
...author seems to have borrowed some parts of his description ." For contemplation he, and valour form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 sider
...authority in men ; though both S9J ,\'<ii equal, as their sex not equal secm'd ; For coiiteniplaiion he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He tor God onh . she for G«\ in him : His tUii- large front and eye sublim< decbu'd 300 Absolute rule;... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 sider
...men : though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace . He for God only, she for God in him. Were the pauses of the sense and sound in this passage but a little better assorted, nothing... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sider
...; though both Met equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valour forrn'd ; For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Hound... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1816 - 380 sider
...•/.: Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed, For valour He, and contemplation, formed, For beauty She, and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, She for God in Him. These words were said of our first parents by our greatest poet, after the influence of a pure... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 sider
...men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd; For contemplation he and valour form'd; For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, .she for God in him. admirable, is the want of coincidence between the pauses of the sense and sound. The translation... | |
| 1856 - 838 sider
...drudgery was not intended for one or the other in a state of happiness, at least Milton says not — "For contemplation he, and valour, formed — For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." As they have earned it by their misconduct, it is the place of the stronger to bear it for the weaker.... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 334 sider
...are seated in expectation of the arrival of their friend. CHAPTER IX. Though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed— For contemplation he, and...formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." MllTON. vv HAT can have come over Lady MacLaughlan ?" said Miss Grizzy, as she sat at the window in... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 sider
...severe and pure ; Severe, but in true filial freedom plae,d : For contemplation he and valour form,d, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front, and eye sublime, declar"d Absolute rule: and hyacinthin locks Ronnd from... | |
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