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" 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 world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate... "
Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton]. - Page 242
by John Milton - 1800
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at last 890 This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature,...at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or fmd some other way to generate Mankind? This mischief had not then befall'u, 895 And more that shall...
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Dacre: A Novel

Frances Talbot Parker Countess of Morley - English fiction - 1835 - 388 pages
...wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth—this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels, without feminine. MII.TOV. IT was lucky for Dacre's conversational reputation that he walked from Wakefield's alone;...
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Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost

Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...enable generation. O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of nature, and fill the World at once With Men as Angels without Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?...
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Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose

David Loewenstein, James Turner - History - 1990 - 308 pages
...reconciliation with Eve: O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect...Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? (x. 888-95; my italics) Without the "novelty" of the female, there could be, need be, no "amatorious...
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Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder

Jack Mclaughlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 496 pages
...example, he copied: 0! why did God, Creator wise! that Peopid highest Heav'n With spirits masculine, create at last This Novelty on Earth, this fair Defect...world at once With Men, as Angels, without feminine? And from Milton's Samson Agonistes he transcribed: Once joined, the contrary she proves, a Thorn Intestine,...
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What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

Antony Easthope - Social Science - 1992 - 196 pages
...to make it. THE END 0 why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect...feminine. Or find some other way to generate Mankind? Adam blaming Eve for the Fall in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) The thrillers of Mickey Spillane...
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Reading Between the Lines

Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - Authors and readers - 1993 - 358 pages
...reconciliation with Eve: O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With Man as Angels without Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? (10.888-95; italics added)...
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Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life

Nancy Owen Nelson - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 358 pages
...view of all women: O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect...Feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind? (427) Thank God the feminist movement of the sixties had identified the chauvinism illustrated by the...
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Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of ...

David F. Noble - Automation - 1995 - 186 pages
...the Creator wise, that people'd highest Heaven with Spirits masculine, create at last this Noveltie on Earth, this fair defect of Nature, and not fill...Feminine, or find some other way to generate Mankind?" John Milton wrote in "Paradise Lost." There are no women in his "Paradise Regained." The Reformation...
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Divided Empire: Milton's Political Imagery

Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...indicting her entire sex: O why did God, Creator wise, that peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect...World at once With Men as Angels without Feminine? (10:888-93) Eve, in a tearful response, accepts all blame as the "sole cause to thee of all this woe"...
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