 | John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 pages
...visited by, since man's "first disobedience" infected universal nature with its deadly evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her manycoloured mantle over creation. The time of the " singing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand, in er!l hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost.— ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old... | |
 | 1833 - 94 pages
...temptation, till she touched, and gathered, and ate ; then, to use the expressive language of _Milton, • " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." All the unhallowed passions which have ever afflicted the human race, — all... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...he also did eat. • Her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat: Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing,...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." They eat, and their eyes were opened— opened, in a sense far different from what the tempter had... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 364 pages
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 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...and mind? " So saying, her rash baud in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded; such delight till then, asseem'd, In fruit she... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
.... So saying, her rash hand in erilhour • .' I Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Book ix, I , s ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRAN8GnESSIO». He scrupled not to eat Against his better... | |
 | Henry Wilkinson Williams - 1836 - 90 pages
...assumes a higher and more commanding character, as in the passage of Milton already cited, — . " Earth felt the wound ; and Nature, from her seat Sighing,...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost: " — there should be something in the subject, to rouse at once the imagination and the feelings,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...FORBIDDEN FRUIT. So saying, her rash hand in erilhour 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 ail was tost. ttook ix. ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRANSGRESSION. He scrupled not to eat Against... | |
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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. 
