 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 woe, That all was lost.  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 219by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, William Dodd - 1762 - 284 pages
...Temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth trembled, the Heavens were filled with Flafhes of Lightning, and the Nymphs howled upon the Mountain Tops. Milton, in the lame Poetical Spirit, has defcribed all Nature as difturbed upon E,ve's eating the for,v bidden Fruit.... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth tremhled, the Heavens were filled With flashes of lighening, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain tops. Milton, in the same poetical spirit, has de«crihed all Nature as disturhed uppn £ve's eating the forhidden fruit, ver. 780. So saying, her... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the taste, of virtue to make wisei what hinders then To reach, and feed at once hoth hody and mind ; So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat i Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pages
...footstool earth, my canopy the skies." Milton thus describes the powerful and instantaneous effect ef Eve's eating the forbidden fruit: "So saying. her...hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she cat; Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1803 - 414 pages
...annexed with solemn threatening to the breach/ thereof. 29 Milton finely represents the fatal act : " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour " Forth reaching to the fruit, shepluck'd, she eat : " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
....that fatal temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the earth trembled, the heavens were filled with flashes of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon...spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve'p eating the forbidden fruit. •' ' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour . ' • • • •... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...more striking or introduced on a more proper occasion, than the following of Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her...hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her leat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 pages
...personification is morj striking, or introduced on a more proper occasion, than the following of Milton upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fmit, she pluck'd, she ate ! Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat, Sighing thro' all her... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth trembled, the Heavens were filled with flaflies of lightning, and the Nymphs howled upon the mountain tops. Milton, in the fame poetical fpirit, has defcribcd all Nature as ditturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...that fatal temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the earth trembled, the heavens were filled with flashes of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon...evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, the eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs... | |
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