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 | Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...Graces and the hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Of living creatures, new to sight and strange, Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect,...looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone. About them frisking play'd All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase In wood or wilderness,... | |
 | Frederick Coombs - Phrenology - 1841 - 178 pages
...Physiognomical language — serious, thoughtful and contemplative. INTELLECTUAL AND SENTIMENTAL EEACTY DESCRIBED Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad. For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet, attractive grace ; He for God only,... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - Social Science - 1991 - 196 pages
...beauty mystique. Adam and Eve are beautiful in paradise before the Fall (Paradise Lost, Bk. 4: 288ff): Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...264-268) 7) the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange: — can heal — For 'tis His institution — and The Adequate of H honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The... | |
 | James Turner - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 368 pages
...baffling blend of mutuality and hierarchy. First, they are distinguished as a pair from the other animals: "Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, / Godlike...Honor clad / In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all." Yet cognizance of their comparatively equal stature vanishes in a declaration of the sexual politics... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...288-355), a passage that opens with the following moderate puritan treatment of the issue of authority: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 344 pages
...of realization left Empson sceptical. I had quoted the f1rst appearace of Adam and Eve in the poem: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honours clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...reality underlying deceptive appearances. Satan's first glimpse of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost reveals Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honor clad In naked Majesty seem 'd Lords of all, And worthy seem'd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious Maker... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...silvis scaena coruscis desuper, horremique atrum nemus imminet umbra. 52. PL.1V.288-92 and 300-303 Two of far nobler shape erect and tall. Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked majestic seemd Lords of all, And worthie seemd. for in thir looks Divine The image... | |
 | Bonnie Wheeler - Art - 1993 - 372 pages
...constitution of the two characters as they first appear nearly one-third of the way through Paradise Lost: 'Two of far nobler shape erect and tall / Godlike erect, with native Honour clad'.9 This language is proudly hierarchical, with the stature of the pair superior to that... | |
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