...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...

...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....

...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 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...

...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...

...Schwestern die beste." In English the classical instance occurs in 'Paradise Lost,' iv. 323-4 :— Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Hazlitt ('English Poets,' rj. 374) writes: "Moral poetry is the highest of all others " ; and I have...

...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 Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat...