 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...occasion : • They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...lines: " They looking back, all th1 eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...occasion. They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, WavM over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful...throng'd and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...disappear'd. 640 They, looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful...and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose 646 Their place of rest, and Providence... | |
 | John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 pages
...finer than his four last lines of Paradise Lost : «« The world was all before them where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In this passage the reader sees all the solitudes of the world opened to our first father, all those... | |
 | Robert Lowth - Hebrew language - 1815 - 618 pages
...low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps." Ibid. 241. " The world was all before them, where to chuse " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : " They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, " Thro' Eden took their solitary way." Par. Lett. sii. 646. Fourthly, A sudden abruption from a state... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...Nothing is finer than his four last lines of Paradisc Lost: "The world was all before them where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In this passage the reader sees all the solitudes of the world open to our first father, all those... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...eastern side beheld BOOK xii. PARADISE LOST. 642—649. Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful...and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...disappear'd. They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful...and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Some natural tears they dropt, 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. TH£ END. O INDEX. , The mmrral letters r'fer to the Book, the Jlgurtt to the Line. and Moses, their... | |
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