 | Barry Spurr - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 82 pages
...expelled from Paradise by God, setting out on their journey into human history in the world at large: They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way'. They have the world 'all before them'. Milton combines, in these final lines of his great epic, the... | |
 | Joseph Francis Kelly - Philosophy - 2003 - 96 pages
...poem even ends on a positive personal note for Adam and Eve who have become reconciled to one another: "They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow / Through Eden took their solitary way" (xii.648-49l. But the title still applies: Paradise Lost. Women Writers and the Faustian Theme In late... | |
 | Ken Hiltner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...might regain place: The World was before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitàrie way (12.6.46-49) The challenge before Adam and Eve as their epic ends is to reroot... | |
 | Emily R. Wilson - History - 2004 - 314 pages
...pain: for the former things are passed away" (2 1 .4). Adam and Eve have to wipe away their own tears: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (12.645-49) The last lines of Paradise Lost create a final gulf between Adam and Eve and their children... | |
 | Jonathan Friday - Art - 2004 - 222 pages
...thronged and fiery arms. To which the last verses form the most striking contrast that can be imagined. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon....steps, and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. The final couplet renews our sorrow; by exhibiting, with picturesque accuracy, the most mournful scene... | |
 | Roy Porter - Body and soul in literature - 2004 - 600 pages
...contained in the Scriptures. Paradise Lost ends with Adam and Eve walking sadly out of Eden: The World was all before them, where to choose Their place of...wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitarie way. The world was also all before Milton's contemporaries, as they took their hesitant steps... | |
 | James Beattie - Philosophy, Scottish - 2004 - 216 pages
...Some natural tears they drop'd, but wiped them soon. The world was all before them, where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They,...steps, and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. The final couplet renews our sorrow; by exhibiting, with picturesque accuracy, the most mournful scene... | |
 | Ralph Pite, Hester Jones - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 222 pages
...Faber, 1963), p. 200. 2 Graham, CP, pp. 152-53. 3 See the close of Milton's Paradise Lost. 'The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place...Providence their guide; / They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, / Through Eden took their solitary way' (Book XII, 11. 646-49). 4 TS Eliot,... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 244 pages
...NO REAL TOAD DURST THERE INTRUDE, Touch'd lightly. (pp. 136-7) At the end of the poem Adam and Eve hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (12. 648-9) Joseph Addison had found an unnecessary renewal of anguish in these lines and wished them... | |
 | Richard H. Brodhead - Education - 2004 - 236 pages
...natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence their guide; They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitary way. Now as you leave, you will have (or... | |
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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... 
