| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 páginas
...introduced more appropriately, than the following of Milton, upon Eve's eating the 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 her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of... | |
| 1834 - 308 páginas
...of the mind which have ever characterized it since the time when prompted by its powerful impulse ' her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat." interest, both for the genius they often display, and for the salutary lessons they... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 páginas
...forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, ibc plack'd, she eat ; Earth felt the wound ; and Nature, from her seat, Sighing, through all hei works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Par. Lost, ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 páginas
...allured by the beauty of the fruit, and a longing desire of becoming wise, infinite, and 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 páginas
...done. Bacon. Nature to youth hot rashness doth dispense, But with cold prudence age doth recompence. Her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plmltd, she eut. ММвН The vate Moral by his own rashnea wrought, Too soon discovered his ambitious... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 páginas
...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 ate ! Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 páginas
..." Of virtue to make wise! What hinders then " To reach, and feed at once both body and mind ?" 780 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 seat, Sighing through all her works,... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1843 - 600 páginas
...forms, which could not otherwise have blemished the works of an all-wise and all-gracious Being. " Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo. That all was lost."—MILTON. JEWISH RETROSPECT OF 1842. WE borrow the following brief but comprehensive... | |
| Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 páginas
...personifications, being less bold than those before stated. Example 3. The following example is from Milton ; " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, the ate. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs... | |
| 1843 - 758 páginas
...conduct of Eve, 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 this... | |
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