In outward also her resembling less
His image who made both, and less expressing
The character of that dominion given
O’er other creatures.”
(VIII. 540–546.)
Thus Eve confesses that in Adam’s beauty, and not in the image of her own soft feminine grace, does she
“see
How beauty is excelled by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.”
(IV. 489–491.)