| Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 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 through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." t " Oh ! unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise... | |
| 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... | |
| Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 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 she... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. 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. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...ver. 780. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing,...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. As... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...presumptuous hand, took of the baneful fruit, and eat, to her own destruction. 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. 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. 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. 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
...trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. 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. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
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