 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam, the goodliest6 man of men since 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 Smith (lecturer on education.) - 1847 - 212 pages
...a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed at unmercifully : — ' Adam, the goodliest of men since born His sons ; — the fairest of her daughters, Eve.' Shakespeare says (the words are Ariel's, in the " Tempest "),— ' Now bid me run, And I will strive... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 460 pages
...confounds them all together in a manner for which any Irishman would have been laughed to scorn : — ' Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve.' Yet Addison, who notices these blunders, calls them only little blemishes." Scotchman, — " He does... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...ideal, had been disappointed in woman. In the words, frequently repeated as a specimen of a bull— " Adam, the goodliest man of men, since born His sons — the fairest of her daughters Eve."— He has unwittingly described the process by which his mind created them. Adam is the goodliest of his... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 224 pages
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" " Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians ; " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve." — Milton, PL book iv. * " The superlative is often more agreeable to the ear ; nor is the sense injured.... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...ill : 320 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters ETe. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They... | |
 | John Hunter - English language - 1848 - 224 pages
...Socrates was the wisest of all the other Athenians ;" '• Socrates was wiser than all the Athenians j " " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the fairest of her daughters, Eve."—Milton, PL book iv. 6. Whether we should say " The fine first books," or " The first five books,"... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...and eye sublime declared Absolute rule * • * Simplicity and spotless innocence." Such was : — " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born " His Sons the fairest of her daughter Eve." Since creation's dawn, but one other perfect Incarnate Form to earth descended: " Altogether... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...anthority — " So band 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." Par. Last, iv. 321. " In the lotvest deep a lower deep." Ibid. iv. 76. " Et ambigua de Vespasiano fama... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...wherein he speaks of Satan : -God and his Son except, And that in which he describes Adam and Eve : " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." It is plain, that in the former of these passages, according to the natural syntax, the divine persons... | |
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Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 
