 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 sider
...emotions tell him otherwise: yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills...presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first,... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 sider
...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 - 146 sider
...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,...falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows. Raphael rebukes Adam for exalting Eve above her position in... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 sider
...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 - 508 sider
...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 sider
...told that she was inferior to him 'in the mind / And inward faculties', he confessed to Raphael : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 sider
...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 - 304 sider
...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...with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and to consummate... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 sider
...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 - 540 sider
...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... | |
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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. 
