 | Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - 1999 - 540 pages
...forbidden fruit.] So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck 'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her \\orks gave signs of woe, Tbat all was lost. Back to the Thicket slunk The guiltie Serpeut, and well... | |
 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
...moment in Book IX of Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature...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... | |
 | David Norbrook - 1999 - 532 pages
...the climactic episode of the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2001 - 436 pages
...lines 781-84, where the Fall is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; / Earth felt the wound, and...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,... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 pages
...mind?' 780 So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; 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 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now only on her taste,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 pages
...future for humanity on earth. . . . her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing thtough all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image... | |
 | Joseph Francis Kelly - 2002 - 260 pages
...fruit, thus disobeying God's command but also breaking the bond between humanity and the natural world. "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...her works, gave signs of woe / That all was lost" tix. 782,41. The serpent slinks away, leaving Eve to ponder what she has done. In the Hebrew Bible... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...at once both Body and Mind? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature...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... | |
 | J. Rosalie Hooge - 2003 - 390 pages
...transgression, being beguiled and deceived, (2 Corinthians 11:3). Milton wrote: "She plucked, she ate; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." And truly all was lost as far as man's perfect communion with God was concerned. Adam's sin was deliberate,... | |
 | Susannah B. Mintz - 2003 - 276 pages
...eating the apple, the more immediate effect is that earth responds. When Eve plucks and eats the fruit, Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...works gave signs of woe, That all was lost... And after Adam eats, Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan,... | |
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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. 
