 | Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 pages
...whom thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. 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. ,6 (University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1 983) on 'rational delight,'... | |
 | Joan Templeton - 1997 - 424 pages
...finally unnatural) descendant of Milton's Eve, piously repeating the lesson of female subservience: "God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more / Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."46 Torvald, Nora's guardian and consultant on everything, even to... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 pages
...those things she is taught are so; but say to her husband, as Milton represents Eve to say to Adam— "God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise." No matter though your husband is wallowing with his fellow-creature... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...in one another's arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss. 7599 Paradise Lost HMS Pinafore I always voted at my party's call, And happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time. 7600 Paradise Lost Milllons... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 pages
...mouth the following address to Adam: '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.' This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 pages
...in that she allowed the triple fallacy to be imposed upon her What thou biddest Unargued I obey: so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. The average husband of recent years — probably the best the world... | |
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - 2000 - 352 pages
...husbands are as God, then wives must be obedient, and find their purposes in what their husbands wish. 'God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' 62 That way of looking at things has strongly influenced anthropological... | |
 | Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 pages
...(New York and London: Methuen, 1 977) 114) My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. (IV.636-39) Evas Partizipation wie die subjektive Erfahrung der... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2002 - 314 pages
...whom thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. 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." These are exactly the arguments that I have used to children; but... | |
 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - 2001 - 394 pages
...and right." (IV, 440—443) And again: "My author and disposer, what thou bidd'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." (IV, 635-638) In fact, woman is not "primarily and immediately... | |
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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. 
