 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.  The Utica Christian Magazine - Page 2801816Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1837 - 336 pages
...gloomy hour responded to that moan of the poet, uttered in view of the first transgression : "Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." To him it has seemed, that in every hill and vale and ocean and... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 pages
...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, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. " B. ix. 1. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men— poverty,... | |
 | Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers - 1839 - 276 pages
...brutified his soul by sensual indulgence, brought death into the world and all our woes, that "earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe that all was lost;" and this is the origin of all we see in man that is degrading,... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...eternal. " 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 " With the same evil arguments which Satan had prevailed upon... | |
 | Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers - 1839 - 268 pages
...brutified his soul by sensual indulgence, brought death into the world and all our woes, that " earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe that all was lost;" and this is the origin of all we see in man that is degrading,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...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 seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost ! Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent ; and well might... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost ! Back to the thicket slunk , The guilty serpent ; and well might... | |
 | John Lillie - 1842 - 252 pages
...made, and, behold, it was very good." But, in the evil hour of the first transgression, " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."— PAR. LOST, B. rx. 782—4. And so, when the man joined and... | |
 | Virgil - 1842 - 616 pages
...to the nuptials ; the Nymphs shrieked from the mountain tops. Thus imitated by Milton ; " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe ; — Sky luwr'd, and, muиering thunder, some sad drope Wept at compleiing of the... | |
 | 1843 - 758 pages
...the mother of Mankind, we have a most striking example. . '• She plucked, she ate — Earth felt the wound and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her .works gave siirns of wo ; That all was lost." Some of our respected readers, as they cast their eye over... | |
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