O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate... The Quarterly Review - Page 442publié par - 1825Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1822 - 284 pages
...to the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest...earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind? This... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...Milton, read the following lines, which are part of one of Adam's speeches to Eve after the fall : Oh! why did God Creator wise ! that peopled highest heaven...earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine? Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...read the following lines, which are part of one of Adam's speeches to Eve after the fall : — Oh ! why did God, Creator wise! that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at hist This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 404 pages
...sagesse. Qui sait même, qui sait si tu ne voulois pas Faire aux yeux de Satan triompher tes appas, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits...earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind? This... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...adopted; though without • In which wish he веете to have anticipated the Miltonic Adam : О ' why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven...spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, thin fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O why did God, Creator wise that peopled highest Heav'n dering Po; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor...Against the houseless stranger shuts the door; Or whe world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? this... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...and now to death devote ? Ibid. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirit masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature ? Ibid. b. 10. For either Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...of love may be compared with what Shakespeare's Lysander says in the Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...of love may be compared with what Shakespeare's Lysander says in the Midsummer Night's Dream, act i. Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 390 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 576 pages
...indebted to this speech for one of the sentiments which he has impnted to Adam, Par. Lost, bx : — ' • O, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest...earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?' See... | |
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