| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...whatever some tattling idiots may pro* Milton, a few years after, made a fine use of this sentiment : ** Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, Th»t all was lost ." PARADISE LOST. tend. When they bring me into quarrels and brawls, I am called,... | |
| 1821 - 770 pages
...have seen me, and to justify me ft: * Milton, a few years after, made a fine use of this sentiment: " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of wo, That afi was lost " ~ " PA&LDISS LOST. one that never did, and never will, either speak or write... | |
| 1821 - 772 pages
...whatever some tattling idiots may preMilion, a few years after, made a fine use of this sentiment : " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her woiks gave signs of woe, That all was lost " PARADISE LOST. tend. When they bring me into quarrels... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...forbidden fruit : " So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked ; she ate : — Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." The highest degree of this figure, addresses inanimate objects, not only as living beings, but as actually... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...and mind T So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat 1 Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 pages
...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...seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." t " Oh ! unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise... | |
| James M'Chord - 1822 - 402 pages
..."Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. "Earth felt the wound, and nature fromherseat, ."Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, •That all was lost." Uut where, meanwhile, was Adam? Him she speedily ibund. What were his emotions on the d.scovery of... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...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,...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. — it. 780. Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions:... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 pages
...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...seat, Sighing- through all her works, gave signs of wo. That all was lost. The third and highest degree of this figure is Jet to be mentioned; when inanimate... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. 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. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again... | |
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