 | Henry Brooke - Irish fiction - 1839 - 352 pages
...utmost wonder, recollected those lines of Milton, where, speaking of Adam and Eve, he calls them •" the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces...born, His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." Th» gentleman perceived my astonishment, and praciously smiling, again asked me what s\im wa< requisite... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...on, nor shunned the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill. So hand in hand they passed ; * * Adam, the goodliest man of men, since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve. Milton. SENTIMENT OF BEAUTY. SOME there are, who contend that the laws of taste are not primitive,... | |
 | Education - 1839 - 598 pages
...Milton, being blind, could not detect. We give a single specimen of his notes. It is upon B. IV, 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Ere." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. The sense is entirely expressed in the lines... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...innocence ! v. So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God, or angel ; for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That...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 They sat them... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel ; for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they poss'd, Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side Tlioy sot them... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 460 pages
...sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him — * # # * * So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces...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... | |
 | Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1841 - 466 pages
...sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him — ***** So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...downcast modesty concealed." But the prize bull belongs to Milton, who, in his Paradise Lost, says, " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve." Such are a few samples of genuine bulls of other than Irish origin; but what story-teller, bringing... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...innocence ! So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight 320 Of God, or angel ; for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's emhraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since horn His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...innocence! So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel; for they thought no ill: So, hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That...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 They sat them... | |
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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. 
