 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.  The Spectator - Page 139by Joseph Addison - 1856Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. — it. 780. Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions:... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil 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. The third and highest degree of this figure is Jet to be mentioned; when inanimate... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 286 pages
...trembled, the heavens were filled with flashes of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain-tops. Milton in the same poetical spirit, has described...seat, Sighing through all her works, gave. signs of wo. That all was lost Upon Adam's failing into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 pages
...taste, Of virtue to make wise. What hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body' and mind?» So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent; and well might; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...the first fatal trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. She pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
 | Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 pages
...the first fatal trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. She pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...the first fatal trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. She pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...stretched forth the presumptuous hand, took of the baneful fruit, and eat, to her own destruction. She pluck'd, she eat ; Earth felt the wound, and nature,...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. 6. Pleased with the taste of the fruit, and fancying herself already in possession of that additional... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...beside. To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 2. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Ibid, b. 9. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan, Sky... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...a Of virtue to make wise:] tree to be desired to make one Gen. iii. 6. The woman saw that the wise. Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve 785 Intent now wholly on her... | |
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