| Theology - 1816 - 304 pages
...the moral heavens, and all would be darkness, and guilt, and wretchedness again would "Earth [feel] the wound, and nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, [gi signs of wo, " That all was lost." Eighteen centuries ago, the divine author of our religion, about... | |
| 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...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, 786—815. PARADISE LOST.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1818 - 510 pages
...hallowed tree, and renounced their allegiance to the Most High. " Earth felt the wound, and Natur« from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Sky low'r'd, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original."... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 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...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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the 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...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... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...body' and mind?" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluckM, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve, 785 Intent now wholly on her... | |
| 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... | |
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