 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...LOVE. My anthor and disposer, what thon bid'st, Unargned I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thon mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. With thee eonversing I forget all time ; All seasons, and their ehange, all please alike. Sweet is the breath... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...strain : — ' My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st, Ilnargued I obey; so God ordains. God is ihy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' The argument ran thus : — The husband is generally the stronger. Policy therefore requires that he... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1851 - 400 pages
...is not mortifying to her, as it is to man ; she is not ashamed of it, but rather is it her pride. " God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise." There is a peculiarity also in woman's love of power ; it is not like the love of power in man. She... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 pages
...Remains, 303. ciently humble to suit the taste of the heathen persecutors of the Christian faith ! " God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."* However, without laying stress on such passages, it is certain that, on the ground of the just supremacy... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...whom thus Eve with perfet beauty adornd. My Author and Difpofer, what thou bidft Unargu'd I obey ; fo God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine : to know no more Is womans happieft knowledge and her praife. With thee converfing I forget all time, All feafons and thir... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...whom thus Eve with perfet beauty adornd. My Author and Difpofer, what thou bidft Unargu'd I obey ; fo God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine : to know no more Is womans happieft knowledge and her praife. With thee converling I forget all time, All feafons and thir... | |
 | Larry Ceplair - 1989 - 404 pages
...unresisting submission to her lord and master. Milton puts into Eve's mouth the following address to Adam: My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued...more, Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.* This much admired sentimental nonsense is fraught with absurdity and wickedness. If it were true, the... | |
 | Joel Pfister - 1991 - 268 pages
...speaking for God, Milton "puts into Eve's mouth" his fantasy of total mastery over his happy idiot: "My author and disposer, what thou bidst, / Unargued...know no more, / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."9 In "Of Queen's Gardens" Ruskin invokes literary authorities to naturalize conventions of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the fairest of her daughters Eve. (Bk. IV, 1. 323-324) 75 "My author and disposer, what thou biddest lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state. With even step and (Bk. IV, 1. 635-638) FaBV 76 With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change,... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...for the conversation she has just displayed: "My Author and Disposer, what thou bidd'st / Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains, / God is thy law, thou mine:...more / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise" (4:635-8). If there is no society among unequals, then Eve's articulate expression of unquestioned... | |
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Unargued I obey : so God ordains. God is thy law ; thou, mine : to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise 1 With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. 
