 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pàgines
...on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel ; for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, t botiom, stops its course ; Doom'd ever in suspense...A wooden jack, which had almost Lost by disuse the Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pàgines
...on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel ; for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, ate an umpire sends their difference to decide. The...to God's decrees, And executes on Earth what Heaven daughiers Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side... | |
 | Alpheus Crosby - 1844 - 518 pàgines
...wonderful that the distinction between them is .not always strictly observed. Thus Milton wrote, " So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair, That...the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the foirest of her daughters Eve." Par. Last, IV. 321. Indeed, in French the two degrees are distinguished... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 pàgines
...Therefore he was at liberty to speak as he did of the place beloved by our first parents, and where often ' Hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That...met: Adam the goodliest man of men, since born His son's, the fairest of her daughters, Eve.' He does not enter, like the sublime and imaginative Milton,... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 pàgines
...figure of speech, advisedly, and will defend himself with Milton's often quoted — " Adam, the godliest man of men since born His sons, — the fairest of her daughters, Eve." — Paradise Lost. I notice a growing misuse of the logical term ' ' correlat i ve ," it being often... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...him best received, Yielded5 with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam, the goodliest6 man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1845 - 104 pàgines
...applicable to Madoc than to any long poem thai ever was written." — Life of W. Taylor, vol. ii. p. 87. t " Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." Paradise Lost. Did not chaste Addison (oh ! noble slip !) First paint his muse a mare and then a ship... | |
 | John Smith (lecturer on education.) - 1847 - 212 pàgines
...a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed at unmercifully : — ' Adam, the goodliest of men since born His sons ; — the fairest of her daughters, Eve.' Shakespeare says (the words are Ariel's, in the " Tempest "),— ' Now bid me run, And I will strive... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pàgines
...the sight Of God or Angel ; for they thought no ill : 320 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam...since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters ETe. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 224 pàgines
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" " Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians ; " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve." — Milton, PL book iv. * " The superlative is often more agreeable to the ear ; nor is the sense injured.... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
