 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 through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 210by John Milton - 1826 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing ihrough all her works, gave signs of woe, Tlrnt all was losL finite wrath, and infinite despair Ï Whicli way I...myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower Regarded ; such delight till then, as scem'd, In fruit she never tasted, whether true Or fancied so,... | |
 | John Lillie - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1842 - 252 pages
...that He had made, and, behold, it was very good." But, in the evil hour of the first transgression, " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."— PAR. LOST, B. rx. 782—4. And so, when the man joined and abetted the woman in her trespass, " Earth... | |
 | Virgil - 1842 - 616 pages
...lowered, privy to the nuptials ; the Nymphs shrieked from the mountain tops. Thus imitated by Milton ; " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe ; — Sky luwr'd, and, muиering thunder, some sad drope Wept at compleiing of the mortal um." Mournful... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...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 ,...for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded; such delight till then, as seem'd, In fruit she never tasted , whether true Or fancied so... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...mind .'" 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...guilty serpent; and well might; for Eve, Intent now only on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight till then, as seem'd, In fruit she never tasted,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...and mind ?" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! now to Death I yield, and am his due All that of me can die : yet, that debt paid, serpenl ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 666 pages
...of mankind reached forth her rash hand to pluck the forbidden fruit, — » Oen.iii,l; SCor.xi, 3. " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost I" The thorn has come up instead of the fir-tree ; and the briar instead of the myrtle-tree ; lands... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...supposed ignorant of such a subject ? U!N evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, ahe ate ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." This, all confess was Eve's great and direful mistake. But why address any from this theme and especially... | |
 | Criticism - 1853 - 666 pages
...mankind reached forth her rash hand to pluck the forbidden fruit, — * Geu. iii, I 2 Cor. zi, 3. " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost 1" The thorn has come up instead of the fir-tree ; and the briar instead of the myrtle-tree ; lands... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Christian life - 1843 - 258 pages
...of every sinner who breaks the law of God, he ventured on the awful experiment. " He plucked, he ate Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." From that dark hour to this, the consequences of that one sin have flowed like a river of death over... | |
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