...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...

...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...

...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...

...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'...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...Traditions (New York and London: Methuen, 1 977) 114) My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst Unargu'd I obey; so God ordains, God is thy Law, thou mine:...more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. (IV.636-39) Evas Partizipation wie die subjektive Erfahrung der Vertikalität, wie sie sich im Monolog...