| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her scat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,...slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight till then, as sccm'd, In fruit... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...forbidden fruit: 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,...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 - 1821 - 356 pages
...and mind?" 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...slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight till then, as seem'd, In fruit... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...So saying, her rash hand in evil hoar 780 Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Fjarth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat. Sighing...slunk The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve, 783 Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded, such delight till then, as seem'd, In fruit... | |
| Nicolas Boileau Despréaux - 1821 - 602 pages
...de la chute de nos premiers parents . sont énergiquement décrites par Milton dans ces beaux vers : Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works , gave signs of woe , lii.ii ail was lost. PLR, IX, v. 782 Le blé, pour se donner, sans peine ouvrant la terrei, N'attendoit... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...whatever some tattling idiots may pro* Milton, a few years after, made a fine use of this sentiment : ** Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, Th»t all was lost ." PARADISE LOST. tend. When they bring me into quarrels and brawls, I am called,... | |
| 1821 - 770 pages
...have seen me, and to justify me ft: * Milton, a few years after, made a fine use of this sentiment: " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of wo, That afi was lost " ~ " PA&LDISS LOST. one that never did, and never will, either speak or write... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...and mind T So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat 1 Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded : such delight till then, as seem'd, In fruit... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
..." So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked ; she ate : — Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing,...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." The highest degree of this figure, addresses inanimate objects, not only as living beings, but as actually... | |
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