 | Millicent Lenz, Carole Scott - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 260 pages
...the origins of society in the "mysterious Law" of "wedded Love": "by thee," rhapsodizes the narrator, "Relations dear, and all the Charities / Of Father, Son and Brother first were known" (IV: 750—57). What Paradise Lost here gives with one hand it takes away with the other: elevating... | |
 | Ivy Schweitzer - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 288 pages
...offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee...Charities Of Father, Son and Brother first were known. (11. 750-57) These opening lines of the "hymn" do not extol all matrimony, only the "wedded Love" in... | |
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Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations... 
