 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...to the fmit, she pluck'd, she ate ! Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat, Sighing thro' all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost. The third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned; when inanimate objects aie represented,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...fruit : ' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, the eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. ' Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second... | |
 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 pages
...her reason was blinded, and in an evil moment, she put forth her hand, " she plucked, she ate." «' Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, " That all was lost." She herself, however, did not, as yet, feel her case so desperate. Still... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...and mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 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 all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent; and well might; for Eve, Intent... | |
 | Virgil - 1811 - 506 pages
...the whole creation gives contrary signs of agony and distress, when Eve cats tire forbidden fruit : Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And afterwards more fully, when Adam follows her example : Earth trembled from... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...mind ?* So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 730 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 all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might; for Eve, 785... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, sheplnrk'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave sign: of woe, That all was lost. ix. 780. AH the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth,... | |
 | 1816 - 304 pages
...the moral heavens, and all would be darkness, and guilt, and wretchedness again would "Earth [feel] the wound, and nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, [gi signs of wo, " That all was lost." Eighteen centuries ago, the divine author of our religion, about... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...and mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she cat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, 786—815.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 pages
...fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck•d, she ate! £arth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. The third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned ; when inanimate... | |
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Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. 
