 Return, fair Eve ; Whom fly'st thou ? whom thou fly'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear ; Part of...  The Genius of Christianity, Or, The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion - Page 238by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 763 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...his wife, Adam puns: "Sole partner and sole part of all these joys"; likewise Eve confesses to him, "Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim / My other half: with that thy gentle hand / Seiz'd mine" (4.411,487-89). While they remain innocent, Adam and Eve are of one soul; their sexual... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...and precedence emerges from the phenomenon of sexual difference. Adam tells the newly created Eve: "Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim / My other half" (4:487-8). The gestures themselves advertise both the affective power of imagining another human as... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...turned; 480 Thou, following, cried'st aloud, "Return, fair Eve; Whom fliest thou? Whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone; to give thee...of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial Me, to have thee by my side Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half." With that thy... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...image; back I tumd, Thou following cryd'st aloud, Return faire Eve, Whom fli'st thou? whom thou fli'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lem Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart Substamial Life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an... | |
 | John Barrell - 1995 - 384 pages
...is the meaning of the word also, for example, in Book IV, where Adam is recorded as saying to Eve: to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, neerest my heart Substantial Life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 pages
...recounting her first day had recited his own words back to him, presumably just as he had spoken them, "to give thee being I lent / Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart / Substantial life" (4.483-85). Her looking at him at first "with startl'd eye" (5.26) is the first indication of fear... | |
 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - 540 pages
...back I turnd, 480 Thou following cryd'st aloud. Return fair Eve, Whom fli'st thou? whom thou fli'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, neerest my heart Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim... | |
 | Anna Julia Cooper - 1998 - 374 pages
...Thou following criedst aloud, "Return, fair Eve, Whom fliest thou? whom thou fliest, of him thou art. Part of my soul, I seek thee, and thee claim My other half." This will never cease to throb and thrill as long as man is man and woman is woman. Now owing to the... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles Durham, Charles W. Durham - 2000 - 324 pages
...voice: Return fair Eve Whom fli'st thou? whom thou fli'st, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone . . . Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seis'd mine, I yeilded. (4.481-89) Just as the two halves constitute the total being, the two perspectives... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 pages
...back I turned; Thou, following, cried'st aloud, "Return, fair Eve; Whom fliest thou? Whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent 57 Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, 485 Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth... | |
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