...the sight Of God or Angel ; for they thought no ill : 320 So hand hi band they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sbns, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering...

...terms the river Ilyssus, a " whispering stream." And in Par. Lost, B. iv. 325, he describes — ' " a tuft of shade that on a green " Stood whispering soft by a fresh fountain side." In his Lycidas, ver. 136. likewise, he addresses the " valleys low, where the mild whispers use " Of...

...nor shunned the sight Of God or Angel ; for they thought no ill : 320 So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces...green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down ; and, after no more toil Of their sweet gardening labour than sufficed 328 To recommend...

...counterpart of those lines of Milton so often cited as an instance of ultra-Graecism in phraseology : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. (Unless, indeed, as we are a little inclined to suspect, the idiomatic usage of the genitive in the...

...grace ; He for God only, she for God in him — ****** So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest plir That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest...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...

...his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence ! So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill : So hand...pass'd, the loveliest pair That ever since in love's emhraces met; Adam, the goodliest man nf men since horn I[is sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve....

...bis happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence ! So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill; 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...

...his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! So pass'd they naked on, nor shunn'd the sight Of God or angel, for they thought no ill; 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...

...: when he shews us our first Parents, sinless, artless, and endowed with godlike beauty ; — '• Adam the goodliest Man of men since born His sons; the fairest of her daughters, Eve;" he exhibits all the grace and beauty of Raffaelle : when he paints the happy fields of Paradise, where...

...shunn'd'the sight Of God or Angel ; for they thought no ill : 330 So hand in hand they pass'd, the lovliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met ; Adam...daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green 325 Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down ; and, after no more toil Of...