| 1833 - 94 pages
...temptation, till she touched, and gathered, and ate ; then, to use the expressive language of _Milton, • " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." All the unhallowed passions which have ever afflicted the human race, — all... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand, in er!l hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost.— ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old... | |
| Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...he also did eat. • Her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat: Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing,...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." They eat, and their eyes were opened— opened, in a sense far different from what the tempter had... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...and mind? " So saying, her rash baud in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,... | |
| Henry Wilkinson Williams - 1836 - 90 pages
...assumes a higher and more commanding character, as in the passage of Milton already cited, — . " Earth felt the wound ; and Nature, from her seat Sighing,...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost: " — there should be something in the subject, to rouse at once the imagination and the feelings,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
.... So saying, her rash hand in erilhour • .' I Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Book ix, I , s ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRAN8GnESSIO». He scrupled not to eat Against his better... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...FORBIDDEN FRUIT. So saying, her rash hand in erilhour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That ail was tost. ttook ix. ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRANSGRESSION. He scrupled not to eat Against... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627 Paradise Lost For... | |
| Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber - 1998 - 166 pages
...obtained: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to... | |
| Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - 1998 - 952 pages
...the Almighty; as in our text, ye shall not surely die. She pluck'd, she ate, Earth felt the wound; nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Milton We may attend, — To the character of the preacher; to the doctrines inculcated; to the hearer... | |
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