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" 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. "
Paradise Lost in Short: Smith, Stillingfleet, and the Transformation of Epic - Page 60
by Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Margaret Seares - 1998 - 195 pages
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William Shakespeare - 1904 - 292 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...the reader that anguish which was pretty well laid hy that consideration, The world was all hefore them where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide, ^fdditon. If I might presume, says an ingemous and celehrated writer, to tJffer at the smallest alteration...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...the mind of the reader, that anguish which was pretty well laid by that consideration, *FF Ttie world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their Guide. Adduon. The reader probably may have observed, that the two last books fall short of the sublimity...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...throng'd and fiery arms i Some natural tears they dropt, hut wip'd them soon ; The world was all hefore them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide i They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their Dtan strut, SUtu ...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon The world was all before them, where to choose Their place 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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 15

English literature - 1803 - 364 pages
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 418 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...all the world 's my way.] Perhaps Milton had this in his mind when he wrote these lines : " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Johnson. K. Rich. Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart : thy sad aspect...
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The Port Folio, Volumes 5-6

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...a prayer book under her arm, and were conveyed by a guard as far as the frontiers. " The world wai all before them where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guidt." The astonishment of those who had passed their lives in seclusion, and now beheld the common...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient ...

Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...the mind of tne reader, ;that anguish winch was pretty well laid by this considerajion;" " The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Mr. Addison's observation is certainly just. The sentence pf expulsion was pronounced with some comfortable...
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