 | James Henry Monk - 1833 - 488 pages
...I will give but two instances, taken casually, and without selection. The first is his note upon B. IV. 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. We have had too much trial of his busy acquaintance,... | |
 | 1871 - 340 pages
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 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 440 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 his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 444 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 at' his daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes."... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...thought no ill ; So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Adam, simple and sublime, instructed by Heaven, and drawing his experience from God, has but one weakness,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...authority — So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Par. Lost, iv. 321. In the lowest deep a lower deep. Ibid. iv. 76. Et ambigua de Vespasiano fa-ma :... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...authority — So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Par. Lost, iv. 321. In the lowest deep a lower deep. Ibid. iv. 76. Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama :... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side son œil sublime,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...thought no ill: So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain sido sou œil sublime,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, 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. Under a tuft of shade, that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side son œil sublime,... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
