 They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before...  Paradise Lost - Page 296by John Milton - 1850 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael Vanden Heuvel - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 282 pages
...effect a renewed beginning for the evicted pair ("The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: /...and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way"). On another level, the performers are escaping the chaos that remains below, and since the two are often... | |
 | Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman - Business & Economics - 1993 - 388 pages
...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: They...steps and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way (John Milton [1957], Paradise lost, XII:641-649). 1. Introduction Once upon a time — according to... | |
 | Lloyd Davis - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 272 pages
...Paradise Lost. Milton had left us with the poignant lines: The World was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (12.646-49) Wordsworth, picking up Milton's phrase, "The World was all before them," turns it into... | |
 | Nicholas Asher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 488 pages
...advantages to leaving an overgrown Platonic paradise for a more desert landscape. They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy...by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped but wiped them soon; The world was all before... | |
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