 | Robert Gilmour, Douthal - English poetry - 1815 - 372 pages
...punished for his tempting Eve,, yet, " Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. " The world was all before them where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide ; " They, hand in hand, with wandering- steps and slow, " Thro' Eden took their solitary way." THE... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English - 1815 - 284 pages
...douleur ! Rien n'est beau comme ces quatre vers qui terminent le Paradis-Perdu : The world was ail before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide : Thcy, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. " Le monde... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1816 - 478 pages
...tow'r pale ivy creeps, *' And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.'' Ib. 24L •" The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : " They hand in hand, with wandYing steps and slow, *' Through Eden took their solitary way." Par.... | |
 | Colonist, Colonist (Writer on colonial West Indies politics) - Abolitionists - 1816 - 390 pages
...Portuguese, about the Slave Trade — there let them exercise their humanity uncontroled — the land is all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." I am, &c. My 10th, 1816. COLONIST. ' ' -To the Editor of the Glasgow Courier. LETTER XXVIII. AFRICA—... | |
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...homes, with aching hearts, and went forth not knowing the things that should befal them*: " The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Numbers of them were reduced to great straits and difficulties; but that gracious Being on whose friendship... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. C.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." LECTURE IT. ON DRYDEN AND POPE. DRYDEN and Pope are the great masters of the artificial style of poetry... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...dreadful faces throng,d and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropp,d, but wip,d them soon ; T.he world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide., If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Seme natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon ; The wnvld was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms ; Some natural tears they dropt, but wipM them loon. 645 The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with waud'nng steps and slow, Through liden took their solitary way. THE END. JtOTE.... | |
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They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before... 
