 O'er other creatures : 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...  The British Essayists;: Tatler - Page 102by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...expressing The character of th .t dominion given O'erother creatures; 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, virtucusest, diicreeteot, best; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...expressing The charafter of that dominion given O'er other creatures ; 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, virtuosest, discreetest, best; 550 Ail higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...expressing The character of that dominion giv'n O'er other creatures ; 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 ! 550 All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...character of that dominion eiv'n O'er other creaturesi yet when I approach Her loveliness, so ahsolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or sa)', Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, hest ; All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...expressing The character of that dominion given 5V O'er other creatures; 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 ; J50 All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | Pierre-Joseph Boudier de Villemert - Women - 1803 - 218 pages
...the same happiness. Mark how woman is described by a Christian poet: 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, discreetestr best I Neither her outside, form'd so fair, nor... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...internal fa-' culties, breaks out into the following rapture : • Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills, or doth, or says, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...much of ornament, in outward shew Elaborate, of inward less exact. 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; All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : 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, discrectest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Had lively shadow'd. ADAM'S DESCRIPTION (MILTON.) YET when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuonsest, disc*-eetest best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
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