 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
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...expressing The character of that dominion given O'er Qther creatures ; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, sO well to know Her own, that what the wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuOutest, discreetest, best ; $50 All higher knowledge in her... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...ornament, in outward show Elaborate, of inward less exact. When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute >he seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreete«t, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...expressing The character 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 I Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 pages
...superiority of reason in his debates with the mother of mankind, adds, -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 : All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 534 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, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...is thus that Adam describes the sanctity of our first parent : " 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. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...The character of that dominion given 545 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 Ovington - Marriage - 1813 - 168 pages
...the charm of beauty's pow'rful glance.' ************ * * * • 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, vrrtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...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 Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vi rtnonsest, discrer test, hest ; 550 All higher knowledge in her presence... | |
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