 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that immediately follow, the pauses are shifted through all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 pages
...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that immediately follow, the pauses are shifted through all... | |
 | John Walker - Classical languages - 1822 - 330 pages
...universally follow the Greek in other caset, why not in this? Milton adopts the Greek. Sing, heav'nly mine ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire , . , That shepherd God, from the mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble, he descending, will himself, In thunder,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our wo, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat ; Sing, heav'nly...beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos. The natural order of the words in this passage would have been, Heav'nly Muse, sing of man's first... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly muse ! These lines are perhaps, as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem, in which particular... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...disobedience, and ihe fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse !— i. I. These lines, are perhaps, as plain, simple, and unadorned as any of the whole... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heavenly Muse." OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. IN attending to the progress of language, we may perceive,... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man...the blissful seat, Sing heav'nly muse ! that on the sacred top OfOreb, orofSini, did'st inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1824 - 828 pages
...of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us aud regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly Muse, that ou the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai, didst inspire...first taught the chosen seed In the beginning, how the heaven and earth Rose out of chaos : or, if Sion hill Delight thee mure, and Siloa's brook that flowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...disobedience, | and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, | whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, | and all our woe, With loss of Eden, | till one greater...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly Muse. | Mr. Pope, in a letter to Mr. Walsh containing some critical observations on English versification,... | |
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OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse... 
