 lost Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; 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. THE END...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 326by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Hawker - Christian life - 1816 - 226 pages
...quoted the passage to my mind as I crossed the court-yard. 4 Some nat'ral 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. The time was now arrived, when a reverse of situation was to take place in the circumstances .of my... | |
 | 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 hand in hand, with wand'ring steps- and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In this passage the reader sees all... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to...guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slo\v, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. C. Wbittingbajii, Printer, Chuwick. ' • «' •... | |
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...homes, with aching hearts, and went forth not knowing the things that should befal them*: " The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Numbers of them were reduced to great straits and difficulties; but that gracious Being on whose friendship... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." LECTURE IT. ON DUYDEN AND POPE. DRYDEN and Pope are the great masters of the artificial style of poetry... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 358 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon j The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." LECTURE IV. ON DRYDEN AND POPE. DRVDEN and Pope are the great masters of the artificial style of poetry... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon 'I'll.- world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...guide! They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and alow, Through Eden took their solitary way. EVIi OF PARADISE L01T. SAMSON AGON1STES. DRAMATIC POF~\l.... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...brand, the gate Wilh dreadful faces throng,d and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp,d, but wip,d them soon; T.he world was all before them, where to...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide., If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
 | Francis Kinloch - France - 1819 - 578 pages
...and a prayer book under her arm, and were'conveyed by a guard as fax as the frontiers. " The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." The astonishment of those, who had passed their lives in seclusion, and now beheld the common objects... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 554 pages
...vanished. The consequence was, that more than ./we hundred families were driven into exile ! " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Some crossed the Alps, and retired into Dauphiny, in France; others to Geneva, and its neighbourhood;... | |
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