 | John Ovington - 1813 - 168 pages
...unmov'd, here only weak Against the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, vrrtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...of releasing her husband from his unjust captivity. c 5 CHAP. CHAP- III. • ":'. •'• ; ' ' • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...And in herself complete ; so well to know Her own, thtit what shc wills to ilo or vay Seems wisest, virtuousest, djscreetest, best ; All higher knowledge... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pages
...charncter of that dominion giren 545 O'er other creatnres ; yetwt"n I appronch Her loveliness, so absolnte she seems And in herself complete, so well to know...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vi rtnonsest, discrer test, hest ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...as if they had been made for no other place. And to all this mental enrichment she adds the skill " So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best." Portia's consciousness of power does indeed render her cool, collected, and firm, but never a whit... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...who made both, and less expressing The character of that dominion given O'er other creatures : Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems...falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discounteuanc'd, and like folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait, o55—584. PARADISE LOST.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1818 - 588 pages
...audjtress, Her husband the relator she preferred.' L 6 " Well - " Well might Adam exclaim — • -' When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what the wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...on her bestow'd Too much of ornament, in outward show • Elaborate, of inward less exact. , When T approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose*!, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...her bestow,d Too much of ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. — — When 1 approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And...own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuose.st, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 348 pages
...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture: " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
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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. 
