 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.  Annual Report of the Department of Education - Page 57by New Brunswick. Board of Education, New Brunswick. Department of Education - 1893Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...poetical spirit, has de«crihed all Nature as disturhed uppn £ve's eating the forhidden fruit, ver. 780. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat i F. nth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing, throug-h all her works... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the taste, of virtue to make wisei what hinders then To reach, and feed at once hoth hody and mind ; So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat i Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...skies." Milton thus describes the powerful and instantaneous effect ef Eve's eating the forbidden fruit: "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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...same 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 pluclc'd, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1803 - 414 pages
...annexed with solemn threatening to the breach/ thereof. 29 Milton finely represents the fatal act : " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour " Forth reaching to the fruit, shepluck'd, she eat : " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...proper 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 fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her leat Sighing, through all her works,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...introduced on a 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 fmit, she pluck'd, she ate ! Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat, Sighing thro' all her... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...the taste, Of 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 eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...•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 pluck'd, the eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...proper 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 fruit, sheplnrk'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works,... | |
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