 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
 | Roy Porter - Body and soul in literature - 2004 - 600 pages
...contained in the Scriptures. Paradise Lost ends with Adam and Eve walking sadly out of Eden: The World was all before them, where to choose Their place of...wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitarie way. The world was also all before Milton's contemporaries, as they took their hesitant steps... | |
 | James Beattie - Philosophy, Scottish - 2004 - 216 pages
...Some natural tears they drop'd, but wiped them soon. The world was all before them, where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They,...and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. The final couplet renews our sorrow; by exhibiting, with picturesque accuracy, the most mournful scene... | |
 | Ralph Pite, Hester Jones - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 222 pages
...Faber, 1963), p. 200. 2 Graham, CP, pp. 152-53. 3 See the close of Milton's Paradise Lost. 'The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place...Providence their guide; / They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way' (Book XII, 11. 646-49). 4 TS Eliot,... | |
 | Laura Ward - Reference - 2004 - 264 pages
...after her missing children, only found another orphan. Closinglines of Moby Dick by Herman Melville They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Last verses of the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton It was chiefly in order to allow time for... | |
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