 | David Quint, Professor David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Looses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made...loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. (546-59) This is, in no small part, the voice of infatuation. But Adam's "uxoriousness," which... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art and literature - 1993 - 336 pages
...But Adam does not feel superior to Eve or limit her freedom: "Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat / Build in her loveliest, and create an awe / About her, as a guard Angelic plac'd" (8.557-59). Adam's admiring speeches and Eve's grateful ones show their capacity to illustrate St.... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount 'nanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made...consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Bin Id in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.' To whom the Angel,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...Reflection which Adam makes on the Pleasures of Love, compared to those of Sense. [521-39, 546-59] These Sentiments of Love, in our first Parent, gave the Angel such an Insight into humane Nature, that he seems apprehensive of the Evils which might befal the Species in general, as... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...Degraded; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made...loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. [v1n. 546-59] This idealization of his loved one, bordering on idolatry, Adam later ottered... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - Religion - 1996 - 508 pages
...Degraded: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount' nanced, and like Folly shows: Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made...loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed. In his comments on the theology of romantic love, Charles Williams quotes this passage from... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made...to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard Angelic plac't. (8.546-59)... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - English literature - 1998 - 252 pages
...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 after made...to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard Angelic plac't. (551-60,... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...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 after made...Occasionally; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind and noblesness thir seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard Angelic plac't.... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler, Valarie H Ziegler - Religion - 1999 - 540 pages
...and Reason on her waite, Occasionally; and to consummate all. Greatness of mind and nobleness thir seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard Angelic plac't. To whom the Angel with contracted brow. 560 Accuse not Nature, she hath don her part; Do thou... | |
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Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her,... 
