...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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,"...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...graced with forms of princely majesty and queenly beauty, only inferior to the pair " imparadised:" " Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters Eve." Genius at once fired and refi/ied by these living models, will produce other models, artificial. Then...

...language is to be found in the well-known lines which occur in Milton's ' Paradise Lost,' iv. 323:— Adam, the goodliest man of men since born, His sons : the fairest of her daughters Eve. As a matter of course bigoted defenders of all that is to be found in the great classics of •all...