 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1825 - 272 pàgines
...This reliance upon authority is represented by some writers as the very essence of female virtue. " God is thy law — thou mine ; to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise." So said Milton : but so said not an higher authority than Milton, when in emphatic language he commended... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - 1825 - 296 pàgines
...bed after he has crossed the Atlantic to pay us a visit." " I think not of repose," cried Theodore. "With thee conversing, I forget all time, " All seasons and their change, all please alike." 257 chamber, not to sleep, but to think on the happy return of the beloved companion of her early youth,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 396 pàgines
...to enjoy the calm of nature, to tread the dewy lawns, and taste the unrifled freshness of the air ! Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. Paradise Lost. What a pleasure do the sons of sloth lose ! Little, ah ! little is the sluggard sensible... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pàgines
...us rest. To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn'd My Author and Disposer what thou bidd'st 635 Unargued I obey : so God ordains : God is thy law,...; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pàgines
...us rest. To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn'd My Author and Disposer what thou bidd'st 635 Unargued I obey : so God ordains : God is thy law,...With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, »nd their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pàgines
...us rest." To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn'd, " My author and disposer, what thou bidst the ill-natur'd old : Let every tongue its various...accuse : Fair Truth, at last, her radiant beams » rime ; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her risjng sweet,... | |
 | 1826 - 490 pàgines
...modern Mahometan. Every where the first duty of woman is obedience, and submissiveness her chief grace ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. Such is the conjugal confession of faith put into the mouth of Eve ! of which precious creed, it is... | |
 | 1826 - 506 pàgines
...Every where the first duty of woman is obedience, and submissiveness her chief grace ; God is tli y law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. Such is the conjugal confession of faith put into the mouth of Eve ! of which precious creed, it ia... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pàgines
...bids us rest. To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorned. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law,...her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; Ah" seasons, and their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pàgines
...disposer, what thou bidst UnaVgu'd I obey; so God ordains. With thee conversing I forget all tune; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With chaim of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient... | |
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Unargued I obey : So God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. 
