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" Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 211
1848
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American Annals of Education, Volume 9

Education - 1839 - 598 pages
...Milton, being blind, could not detect. We give a single specimen of his notes. It is upon B. IV, 323. " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Ere." " I'll not believe this distich to be Milton's. The sense is entirely expressed in the lines...
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The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Present

Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...downcast modesty concealed." But the prize bull belongs to Milton, who, in his Paradise Lost, says, " Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve." Such are a few samples of genuine bulls of other than Irish origin; but what story-teller, bringing...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...no ill : So hand in hand they poss'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met : ikin` 4 Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side Tlioy sot them...
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Publications, Issue 86, Volume 1

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 460 pages
...— * # # * * So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." The sacred institution of marriage was formed in Paradise itself: and here again Milton shall be your...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam the goodliest 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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair. That ever since in love's embraces met : , Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden jack, which had almost Lost by disuse the Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...thought no ill: So, hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in Love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest 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...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met : t ministers to God's decrees, And executes on Earth what Heaven daughiers Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 48

1856 - 1432 pages
...figure of speech, advisedly, and will defend himself with Milton's often quoted — " Adam, the godliest man of men since born His sons, — the fairest of her daughters, Eve." — Paradise Lost. I notice a growing misuse of the logical term ' ' correlat i ve ," it being often...
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Maro; Or, Poetic Irritability. In Four Cantos

Samuel Bailey - 1845 - 104 pages
...applicable to Madoc than to any long poem thai ever was written." — Life of W. Taylor, vol. ii. p. 87. t " Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." Paradise Lost. Did not chaste Addison (oh ! noble slip !) First paint his muse a mare and then a ship...
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