 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1849 - 390 pages
...Milton represents Eve as saying to Adam, " My author and disposer, what thou bid'st Urmrgued I obey; so God ordains. God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise !" Thus she must serve the creature instead of the Creator. Man usurps... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...Eve, with perfect beauty adorn 'd My Author and Disposer what thou bidd'st 635 Unargued I obey : so God ordains : -,God is thy law, thou mine : To know no more >. Is woman's happiust knowledge, and her praise. With thee conversing, I forget all time ; All seasons, and their... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 pages
...with perfect beauty adom'd : " My author, and disposer! What thou bid's! 635 (Jnargued I obey ; so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happigst knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time; All seasons and their change,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 90 pages
...intimations in the Fourth Book, such as My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey : so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. — /. 638. Here the principle is laid down : in the Eighth Book... | |
 | 1850 - 396 pages
...of Eve, in her address to Adam : " My author and disposer, 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. Now the power ascribed to .man in these lines is too absolute —... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 336 pages
...intimations in the Fourth Book, such as My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey : so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. — I. 638. Here the principle is laid down : in the Eighth Book... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...reft. To whom thus Eve with perfet beauty adornd. My Author and Difpofer, what thou bidft Unargu'd I obey ; fo God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine : to know no more Is womans happieft knowledge and her praife. With thee converling I forget all time, All feafons and thir... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...reft. To whom thus Eve with perfet beauty adornd. My Author and Difpofer, what thou bidft Unargu'd I obey ; fo God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine : to know no more Is womans happieft knowledge and her praife. With thee converfing I forget all time, All feafons and thir... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1851 - 266 pages
...effusion of devotion there described. " My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st Unargued I obey: HO 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... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1851 - 400 pages
...is not mortifying to her, as it is to man ; she is not ashamed of it, but rather is it her pride. " God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise." There is a peculiarity also in woman's love of power ; it is not... | |
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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. 
