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 | Twenty-seven sermons - 1864 - 264 pages
...none, but adoration pure, Which God likes best, into their inmost bower Handed they went. * * * # * Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise ! By thee, Or think thee unbefitting holiest place ; Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets ! *****... | |
 | Joseph Bush - 1867 - 242 pages
...could not possibly be expressed with more force and beauty than in the following lines of Milton : — 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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 pages
...can we pass by his episode upon marriage, which, for itf grave and majestic beauty, is inimitable. Hail wedded love ' mysterious law ! true source Of...human offspring ! sole propriety In paradise, of all things common else ! By thee adult'rous lust was drivn from men. Among the bestial herds to rnngr*... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1879 - 524 pages
...flame so it shone to the end. In this relation was exemplified the beautiful description of Milton: " 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 ;... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and Man? 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 raunge... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...Revolution in 1777 -so captured American imagination as these lines from the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost: 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, by... | |
 | Leland Ryken - Religion - 1990 - 306 pages
...from the Catholic tradition, Milton proceeds to give his famous apostrophe (address) to wedded love: 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man? (Bk. IV, 1. 738-749) FF; TOP 78 is dear Psyche sweet intranc't After her things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...own) anxiety, the narrator strenuously defends 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. .... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - History - 1993 - 276 pages
...other mysteries of his theme, Milton gives 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... | |
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