 | Samuel Roberts Wells - 1871 - 788 էջ
...rounded limbs, smooth surfaces and elasticity, indicative of delicacy and grace. As Milton says : " For contemplation he, and valor formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." Roundness prevails in her, angularity in him. She has more of the vital system, with its cellular tissues... | |
 | Walter Smith - 1872 - 570 էջ
...perceive, men can create, women only appreciate ; and as Milton the Puritan poet expresses it, — " For contemplation he, and valor formed ; * For softness she, and sweet attractive grace," — as though contemplation were not equally characteristic of both sexes, the combination of leisure,... | |
 | WALTER SMITH - 1873 - 480 էջ
...perceive, men can create, women only appreciate ; and as Milton the Puritan poet expresses it, — " For contemplation he, and valor formed ; * For softness she, and sweet attractive grace," — as though contemplation were not equally characteristic of both sexes, the combination of leisure,... | |
 | 1875 - 466 էջ
...and Eve in the garden of Eden, says : "Though both, Not equal, as their sex not equal seem, • .; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace. He for .God only, she for God in him,. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule."*... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 էջ
...lords of all ; And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone : For contemplation he and valor formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ;... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 554 էջ
...lords of all; And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone: For contemplation he and valor formed; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 290 էջ
...freedom placed; Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal, seemed; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 էջ
...freedom placed,) Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valor formed ; For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him : His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 էջ
...freedom placed, Whence true authority in men : though both Not equal, as their sex not equal, seemed ; aid he, " pour on him all we can : Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Con He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule: and... | |
 | Franklin Johnson - 1882 - 154 էջ
...kind." The lines in which Milton describes Adam and Eve also occur to me as an illustration : — " For contemplation he, and valor formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace." There is a movement in this country and Great Britain whose object is to secure for woman the prerogatives... | |
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Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace... 
