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The Essays - Page 293
by Francis Bacon - 1908 - 302 pages
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and ...

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....
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

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...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 3

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...
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Castle Rackrent. Essay on Irish bulls. The modern Griselda. v. II. Belinda ...

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...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 35

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...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

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...
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Lectures on the Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the United ...

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...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Literary Remains of the Late Henry Neele: ... Consisting of Lectures on ...

Henry Neele - 1829 - 368 pages
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 10

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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