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. The British Essayists: Spectator - Seite 183von Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Virgil - 1811 - 506 Seiten
...the whole creation gives contrary signs of agony and distress, when Eve cats tire forbidden fruit : Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat Sighing,...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And afterwards more fully, when Adam follows her example : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 Seiten
...poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluek'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 Seiten
...hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body* and mind ?* So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 730 Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat...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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 Seiten
...forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, sheplnrk'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave sign: of woe, That all was lost. ix. 780. AH the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth,... | |
| 1816 - 304 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...virtue to make wise : What hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body 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 through all her works, gave signs of... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 Seiten
...llian the following of Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, tier rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound : and nature from her »eat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of... | |
| 1818 - 510 Seiten
...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 - 1818 - 266 Seiten
...more proper occasion, than the following of Milton upon Eve•s eating the forbidden 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 through all her works, gave signs of... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 Seiten
...occasion, than the following of Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the...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... | |
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