Charlotte Bronte
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Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?""I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ... I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son.
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| Answer | Clues |
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| EVE | 1661 clues |
| GOD | 420 clues |
| RAVEN | 285 clues |
| BRAVE | 235 clues |
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| BEAUTIFUL | 198 clues |
| NATURE | 180 clues |
| WOMEN | 176 clues |
| GRIEF | 121 clues |
| TITANS | 114 clues |
| ABSURD | 114 clues |
| POETRY | 111 clues |
| STRENGTH | 105 clues |
| BIRTH | 99 clues |
| SADNESS | 85 clues |
| INDEPENDENCE | 75 clues |
| CREATION | 66 clues |
| GENDER | 63 clues |
| AUTUMN | 56 clues |
| SUPERIORITY | 45 clues |
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The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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