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. English Poems - Page 60by John Milton - 1873Full view - About this book
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...the forbidden fruit. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluek'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions. •... | |
| Virgil - 1811 - 506 pages
...the whole creation gives contrary signs of agony and distress, when Eve cats tire forbidden fruit : Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat Sighing,...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And afterwards more fully, when Adam follows her example : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...and mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she cat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...slunk The guilty Serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, 786—815. PARADISE LOST. BOOK ix. Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 266 pages
...fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck•d, she ate! £arth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. The third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned ; when inanimate objects are represented,... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old age, all the dispositions... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...: ' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat : Munh felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat .Sighing,...through all her works gave signs of woe , That all wa§ lost. ' Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions.... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck,d, she eat : Karih felt the wound, and Nature,, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe That all wai lost. , Upon Adam,s falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions.... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...of Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost ix. 789. AH the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old age, all the dispositions... | |
| 1825 - 364 pages
...her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the shock, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." Paradise Lost, IX. 780. " Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...hinders then To reach, and feed at once boih body and mind ?" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour ear, Returning suns and double scat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk... | |
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