...• * • * 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: • " Why should our garments, made...

...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...

...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...

...— ****** So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest plir 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...

...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 sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them...

...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 sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whisp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them...

...they were ; of stature more ; And al I their formes, much goodlier than before. Chapman. The goodliat man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Milton. A prince of a goodly aspect, and the more goodly by a grave majesty, wherewith his minrt did...

...: 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...

...her own. The comparative required the terms to be contrasted by the word other. " Adam The comeliest of men since born His sons. The fairest of her daughters Eve." — Milton. " Adam," the antecedent subject of comparison, is here improperly referred to the aggregate...

...our first Parents, sinless, artless, and endowed with godlike beauty ; — " Adam the goodliest Mail 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...