...; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankind :— Her hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing tbro' all her works, gave signs of wo,...

...ruins huge Of pyramids, erected by the toil And bitter anguish of despairing slaves. " Earth feels the wound and nature from her seat, " Sighing' through all her works, gives sign of woe," When first heaven's light dawns on a HERO'S'eyes. For other, PROSPERO, is the glorious...

...brought death into the world, and all our woe." She also gave to Adam " that fair enticing fruit." He eat : — " Earth felt the wound, and nature from...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." And what was the light they discovered ? They beheld that they were naked. They had lost their primitive...

...eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as godf, knowing good and evil." She listened and yielded — " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost." She was then made the instrument of seducing the man also — and both were...

...by the same poet, ' So saying, her rash hand in evil boiir Forth reaching.to the fruit, she plucked, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." IBID. ix. 780. These sentiments, however, are not the creations of the poet's fancy, they merely re-echo...

...clothed with such superlative attributes, sine« the day that God cursed the ground for man's sake, and " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That nil was lost." The fact is, that self-interest lies at the bottom of all these pompons and inflated...

...our world, since man's " first disobedience" infected universal nature with its moral evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sign of woe That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her many-coloured maulle over creation....

...the closing line there is a reminiscence of "that fatal moment in Book IX of Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit,...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote the version that...

...parallels between Caesar's campaigns and Satan's continue at the climactic episode of the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit,...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix.78o-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...

...the sentence echoes Milton's Paradise Lost, bk. 9, lines 781-84, where the Fall is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit,...her Works, gave signs of woe, / That all was lost." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the latter of which reads,...