 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 sider
...involuntary appetites, man is not brutish. The moral life does not require a law of absolute abstinence. "Our maker bids increase, who bids abstain / But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?" (4.748-749) Milton's tendentious hymn to the "Rites / Mysterious" — the term Adam used to upbraid... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...judgment of John Milton, as one who also has, he hopes, obtained mercy of the Lord, says quite otherwise: Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man? Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true sourse Of human ofspring, sole proprietie, In Paradise of all... | |
 | Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 sider
...connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to...who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and man?102 Having dissociated himself from the Catholic tradition, Milton proceeds to give his famous... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...Of puritie and place and innocence. Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to som, ds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels. 12 Celestial Cupi (Bk. IV, 1. 738-749) FF; TOP 78 Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 sider
...innocent "wedded love" against its sinful counterfeits: Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of Human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range. . . . Here Love his golden shaft... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1993 - 276 sider
...pride of place to the generative promise of chaste union: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 sider
...connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to...human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all dungs common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by... | |
 | James Innell Packer - 1994 - 372 sider
...for God only, she for God in him. Now the invocation: Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to rage, by thee Founded in reason, loyal,... | |
 | Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson - 1995 - 260 sider
...are blessing, with the positive command 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth' (1.28): Our maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man? (iv. 748-9) When Eve makes her proposal of physical separation in book x, where she echoes the sourly... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 sider
...harmony in a single sound, because it has no proportion to another. Hypocrites austerely talk, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure ; and commands to some, leaves free to all. [IV, 744-6] When two syllables likewise are abscinded from the rest, they evidently want some associate... | |
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Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father,... 
