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| International Comparative Literature Association. Congress - Comparative literature - 2000 - 592 pages
...Devotion (Book 9) stand out as encapsulated pieces of lyrical poetry. Here are Eve's words in Book IV: With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons...rising sweet With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,... | |
| Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - Political Science - 2000 - 484 pages
...following address to Adam: 'My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordains— God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more. Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity and wickedness. If it were true, the... | |
| Sarah Grand - Feminism - 2000 - 606 pages
...allowed the triple fallacy to be imposed upon her What thou biddest Unargued I obey: so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. The average husband of recent years — probably the best the world has yet produced — is a victim... | |
| Stephen R. L. Clark - Philosophy - 2000 - 352 pages
...husbands are as God, then wives must be obedient, and find their purposes in what their husbands wish. 'God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' 62 That way of looking at things has strongly influenced anthropological and ethological discourse.... | |
| Ulrich Weisstein, Jean-Louis Cupers - Art - 2000 - 344 pages
...Adam in Paradise Lost, Milton has a positive statement followed mmediately by a negative variation: Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,... | |
| Richard S. Wheeler - Fiction - 2000 - 486 pages
...hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton PARADISE LOST Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,... | |
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