 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Eve, with perfect beauty adornM • My author and disposer ! what thou bid'st Unargu'd I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. With thee conversing, 1 forgat ail time, All seasons and their... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. My author and disposer, what thou bid'st Unargued I obey ; so hould thankless pride repine} Say, should the philosophic happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing, I forget all time ; All seasons and their... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...husband, as belike you guess. Joanna Baillie's Basil, a. 3, s. 3. What thou bid'st Unargued I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law ; thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Sole partner, and sole part, of all... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1824 - 262 pages
...extracts — " Mark how prettily she tells her husband — -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." Here the soh'citor made a long, and, the party thought, an awkward... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...second and all following our of my being, out of whom I was walk. made. Hume. Unargued I obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; AH seasons and their change,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...with perfect beauty' adorn'd : " My author, and disposer! What thou bid'st 635 Unargued I obey ; so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1825 - 272 pages
...This reliance upon authority is represented by some writers as the very essence of female virtue. " God is thy law — thou mine ; to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise." So said Milton : but so said not an higher authority than Milton,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn'd : " My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued 1 obey ; so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change,... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 490 pages
...modern Mahometan. Every where the first duty of woman is obedience, and submissiveness her chief grace ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. Such is the conjugal confession of faith put into the mouth of Eve... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...diseases; a drowning of the quickness and activity of the spirits — South. DCCCLXII. (Eve to Adam.) God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time; All seasons and their change,... | |
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Unargued I obey, so GOD ordains; GOD is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. 
