 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.} If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the Poem would end better with the foregoing passage than with the two verses here quoted. These two verses, though they have their beauty,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest afte-- ration in this divine work, I should think the poem would end better with the passage here quoted, thai* with the two verses which follow : • They hand \n Land, with wand'ring steps and slow. Through... | |
 | 1803 - 422 pages
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 | English essays - 1803 - 418 pages
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 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...presume to offer at the smallest 'alteration in this divine work, I should' think the poem •frould end better with the passage' here quoted, than with the two verses which follow." ;i:iii '-'• ", •;,:; 'i .oi;o.^-;d;u ,-.'.;'.;•} •••• .-., .•• .-.- •'• Tliey... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 398 pages
...place of rest, and Providence their guide." If I might presume to offer at the smallest a!tc. ration in this divine work, I should think the poem would end...two verses which follow : ' They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way.' These two verses, though they have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 382 pages
...the passage here quoted, than with the two verses which follow: ' They hand in hand, with wind'ring steps and slo.w, Through Eden took their solitary way.' These two verses, though tiicy have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage, and re. m;w in the mind of the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...Providence their guide." f { If I might presume," says Mr. Addison, "to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem would end...here quoted, than with the two verses which follow:" *' These two verses," continues this excellent critic, " though they have their beauty, fall very much... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...remorseless critic branded as unworthy of Milton. The last exquisitely affecting and musical lines, ' They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way,' were thus flattened, and all their sweetness crushed out — 1 Then hand in hand, with social steps,... | |
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Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 
