Re: Daniel/Temperance
No, Eve. The first woman. If you haven't read it, I'm doing it a disservice. This is the way the passage goes:
In outward also her resembling less His Image who made both, and less expressing The character of that Dominion giv'n O're other Creatures; yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in her self compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, Wisdom in discourse with her Looses discount'nanc't, and like folly shewes;
And he goes on a bit more. Milton, not God. Well, Milton's God.
I have not read him; I can't call myself a very good student, only an admirer of pretty things.
That is all? A search for a book? How very disappointing.