 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
 | 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;... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...when he wrote these lines : 5 all the viorU's my viay.~\ Perhaps Milton had this in his " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' K. Rich. Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect Hath from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...thou King Richard's tomb, " And not King Richard—." And Milton, in Samson Agonistes: " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." JOHNSON. The Duke of Norfolk after his banishment went to Venice, vhere, says Holinshed, " for thought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 460 pages
...when he wrote these lines : " And not King Richard —." And Milton, in Samson Agonistes: " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." JOHNSON. The Duke of Norfolk after his banishment went to Venice, where, says Holinshed, "for thought... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...flaming sword of the cherubim has been withdrawn. Let them approach ; in coming to America, The world is all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. ' Let them select the city or the plain ; the commerce beaten shores of the Atlantic, or the rich wilderness... | |
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