| Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pages
...so far from being unfriendly to human happiness, that it tends in the highest degree to promote it. Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve, Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side OF LOVE MELANCHOLY.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thought no ill. So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met; consum'd : Such place eternal Justice had prepar'd For those rebellious, here their Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them... | |
| 1825 - 594 pages
...• * • * So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. The sacred institution of marriage was formed in Paradise itself: • " Why should our garments, made... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn. ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman — " He does... | |
| 1827 - 356 pages
...counterpart of those lines of Milton so often cited as an instance of ultra-Graecism in phraseology : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. (Unless, indeed, as we are a little inclined to suspect, the idiomatic usage of the genitive in the... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...thought no ill; So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met, Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them... | |
| Ashbel Green - 1829 - 440 pages
...— ****** So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest plir That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." The sacred institution of marriage. was formed in Paradise itself: and here again Milton shall be your... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...thought no ill; So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met, Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them... | |
| Henry Neele - 1829 - 368 pages
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| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...they were ; of stature more ; And al I their formes, much goodlier than before. Chapman. The goodliat man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Milton. A prince of a goodly aspect, and the more goodly by a grave majesty, wherewith his minrt did... | |
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