 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 sidor
...those things she is taught are so; but say to her husband, as Milton represents Eve to say to Adam— "God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise." No matter though your husband is wallowing with his fellow-creature in the gutter, and does not know... | |
 | Joan Templeton - 2001 - 412 sidor
...finally unnatural) descendant of Milton's Eve, piously repeating the lesson of female subservience: "God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more / Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.""' Torvald, Nora's guardian and consultant on everything, even to the proper dancing of the Neopolitan... | |
 | Joan Templeton - 1997 - 424 sidor
...finally unnatural) descendant of Milton's Eve, piously repeating the lesson of female subservience: "God is thy law, thou mine; to know no more / Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise."46 Torvald, Nora's guardian and consultant on everything, even to the proper dancing of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sidor
...in one another's arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss. 7599 Paradise Lost HMS Pinafore I always voted at my party's call, And...thinking for myself at all. 3964 HMS Pinafore Stick clos 7600 Paradise Lost Milllons of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 sidor
...wiser to fallen perceptions. 'My author and disposer', she says to Adam in Book 4, 'what thou bid'st / Unargued I obey; so God ordains, / God is thy law,...more / Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise' (635-8). Is this allegation to be taken as the ventriloquization of a poet who thought that 'all believers'... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 sidor
...brother or husband, as the case might be — 'knows best"? 'My author and disposer, what thou biddest Unargued I obey; so God ordains; God is thy law, thou...more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise' was dinned into her as part of her religion. The modern religious woman has been educated to think... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 sidor
...Milton put into Eve's mouth the following address to Adam: 'My author and disposer, what thou bidst, Unargued I obey; so God ordains— God is thy law,...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... | |
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - 2000 - 352 sidor
...husbands are as God, then wives must be obedient, and find their purposes in what their husbands wish. 'God is thy Law, thou mine: to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.' 62 That way of looking at things has strongly influenced anthropological and ethological discourse.... | |
 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - 2001 - 394 sidor
...hast said is just and right." (IV, 440—443) And again: "My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st Unargued I obey; so God ordains. God is thy law, thou...more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise." (IV, 635-638) In fact, woman is not "primarily and immediately the image of God, but in reference to... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2002 - 314 sidor
...beauty . . . : "To whom thus Eve with perfect beauty adorn'd. My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargued I obey; so God ordains; God is thy law, thou...more Is Woman's happiest knowledge and her praise." These are exactly the arguments that I have used to children; but I have added, your reason is now... | |
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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. 
