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 faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt ; but wip'd them soon. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 435by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...Lost XII.641-647: They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir 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 relative situations of... | |
| William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...their birthright? They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fiery Arms. My subject in this final chapter is the symbol life prepared Milton, step by step, to create and comprehend—... | |
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...who disappears, They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...first parents: They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where... | |
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