Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe,... London Saturday Journal... - Side 1191840Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 sider
...Eve (with a certain self-conscious insistence on what was then possible) in Paradise before the Fall: Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majestic seemed Lords of all, His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule . . ." 79... | |
| James L. Kugel - 1990 - 268 sider
...describes Adam and Eve among the other creatures in Eden, they meet the epic requirement without stint. 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... | |
| Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 sider
...enclosed with shining rock, A whole day's journey high, but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures new to sight and strange. (4.247-87) Milton aims first to flood our senses with vernal delight; beyond such proliferation, he... | |
| Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 sider
...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... | |
| James Turner - 1993 - 368 sider
...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 erect, with native Honor clad / In naked Majesty seem'd Lords of all." Yet cognizance of their comparatively equal stature... | |
| Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 sider
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 sider
...where the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, 290 And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom,... | |
| André Verbart - 1995 - 322 sider
...Adam and Satan being notably unhappy in a situation where they could be supposed to be happy: where the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living Creatures new to sight and strange: In response Adam elaborates his own reasoning, linking numerology, solitude and self-sufficiency: Thou... | |
| Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 sider
...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 of the... | |
| Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - 540 sider
...CE) JOHN MILTON Book W, II 28 's-535 [Satan descends to earth to view the paradise God has created.] the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of...tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majestic seemd Lords of all, 290 And worthie seemd, for in thir looks Divine The image of thir glorious... | |
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