| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pàgines
...Eve, with perfect beauty adorned • " My author, and disposer ! What thou bid'st Unargued I obey ; so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change,... | |
| 1852 - 874 pàgines
...thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn'd. "My anthor and disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey: so walk Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day Falls on the leng happiest knowledge, and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and their... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pàgines
...know. MII.TON. EVE'S CONJUGAL LOVE. MY author and disposer, what thou bid'st, Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and their... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - 1986 - 58 pàgines
...Gubar 202 and 187-308): My author and disposer, what thou bid'st Unargu'd I obey; so God ordained. God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. (Pi 4.635-38; as cited in Letters i) Although hastening to assure... | |
| Larry Ceplair - 1989 - 404 pàgines
...Eve's mouth the following address to Adam: My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordains — God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.* This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity... | |
| Joel Pfister - 1991 - 268 pàgines
...total mastery over his happy idiot: "My author and disposer, what thou bidst, / Unargued I obey; so God ordains — /God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more, / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."9 In "Of Queen's Gardens" Ruskin invokes literary authorities to... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...daughters Eve. (Bk. IV, 1. 323-324) 75 "My author and disposer, what thou biddest Unargued I obey; so nt shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state. With even ste happiest knowledge and her praise. (Bk. IV, 1. 635-638) FaBV 76 With thee conversing I forget all time,... | |
| James Turner - 1993 - 368 pàgines
...conversation she has just displayed: "My Author and Disposer, what thou bidd'st / Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains, / God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (4:635-8). If there is no society among unequals, then Eve's articulate... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 pàgines
...thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bid'st Unargued I obey; so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.2 These are exactly the arguments that I have used to children; but... | |
| Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 pàgines
...whom thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey; so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. ,6 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1 983) on 'rational delight,'... | |
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