WOMEN AS INSPIRERS 



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she fully answers to the beautiful characterization which 

 Adam, in Paradise Lost, gives of his beloved Eve: 



"So absolute she seems, 

 And in herself complete, so well to know 

 Her own, that what she wills to do or say 

 Seems wisest, virtuosest, discreetest, best. 



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 Authority and reason on her wait, 



* * * and, to consummate all, 

 Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat 

 Build in her loveliest, and create an awe 

 About her, as a guard angelic plac'd." 



