| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...Oh ! why did God, Creator wise! that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at hist This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature,...way to generate Mankind ? This mischief had not then befallen, And more that shall befall ; innumerable Disturbances on earth, through female snores, And... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...supernumerary To my just number found. O why did God, Creator wise that peopled highest Heav'n With g Po; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against...A weary waste expanding to the skies; Where'er I befal, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex... | |
| Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 pages
...voulois pas Faire aux yeux de Satan triompher tes appas, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on...mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex:... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 286 pages
...Adam's speeches to Eve after the fall. 0! why did God, Creator wise! that peflpl'd highest heav'n With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on...way to generate Mankind! This mischief had not then befaH'n, And more that shall befall; innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And straight... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...Dream, act i. Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature,...generate Mankind ? this mischief had not then befall'n, 895 And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...Dream, act i. Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 390 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature,...generate Mankind ? this mischief had not then befall'n, 895 And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...why did God, Creator wise, that peopled high est" heaven With spirits masculine, create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature,...way to generate Mankind? This mischief had not then befallen, 894 And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares,... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, thin fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once...without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate much hope on the part of the deputation on account of the desperate condition of ' the Age ' who appears... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...and now to death devote ? Ibid. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirit masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature ? Ibid. b. 10. For either Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain, Through her perverseness, but shall... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...; as in the memorable passage — ' O, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create, at last, This novelty on...earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the earth at once With men, as angels, without feminine !' There is a still more curious exemplification... | |
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