| Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...fruit : So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucfc'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sicns of wo, That all was lost. The third and highest decree of this figure is yet to be mentioned... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pages
...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.... | |
| British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...dominion fell from his enfeebled hand ; the Divine image was blotted from his heart ; and " Nature, sighing through all her works, Gave signs of woe that all was lost." What effect this awful change then had upon the holy angels, we are not informed, and therefore it... | |
| James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 910 pages
...clothed with such superlative attributes, sinco the day that God cursed the ground for man's sake, and " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." The fact is, that self-interest lies at the bottom of all these pompous and inflated descriptions of... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...fruit : So saying, her rush hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she nte ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. B. ix. I. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men — poverty, riches, youth,... | |
| Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...the guide to ruin." " Forth reaching 10 the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the wound ; aud nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The immediate effects of this criminal act, in the conduct of Eve, we cannot ascertain: but " she gave... | |
| John Bunyan - Spiritual warfare - 1832 - 264 pages
...garrison for himself, and strengthens and for himself. fortifies it with all sorts of provisions against " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, pave signs of woa "That all was lost." Book IX. 1. 790. the kin* Shaddai. or those that should endeavour... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 pages
...visited by, since man's "first disobedience" infected universal nature with its deadly evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her manycoloured mantle over creation. The time of the " singing... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 314 pages
...THE WORLD. " 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...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." ON NEGRO COLONIAL SLAVERY. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority... | |
| Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand, in er!l hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost.— ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old... | |
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