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" They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Some natural tears they... "
An Essay on the Nature of the English Verse: With Directions for Reading Poetry - Page 124
by Joseph Robertson - 1799 - 134 pages
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Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...who disappears, They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...first parents: They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where...
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The Amber Gods, and Other Stories

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - 1989 - 276 pages
...Paradise Lost: They looking back, all th'Eastern side beheld ()f Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that Flaming Brand, the Gate With Dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Arms: Some natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where...
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The Changing Fictions of Masculinity

David Rosen - 1993 - 260 pages
...then disappear'd. They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful...Arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:...
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A Marriage Sourcebook

J. Robert Baker, Joni Reiff Gibley, Kevin Charles Gibley - 1994 - 174 pages
...disappear'd. They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throngd and fierie Arms: Som natural tears they dropd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where...
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Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

Lawrence Manley - 1995 - 638 pages
...from the Garden, Adam and Eve behold all th'Eastern side . . . Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fiery Arms. (12.641-644) The "blissful seat" that will be restored is not the locality of Eden, the "happie Native...
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Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth, Volume 97

André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...fiery Carthage: They looking back, all th'Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where...
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The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - 1996 - 362 pages
...of Eden: "They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld / Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the Gate / With...throng'd and fiery arms. / Some natural tears they dropped, but wip'd them soon; / The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest,...
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The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...them. They, looking back, all th' eastern cliff beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms. To which the last verses form the most striking contrast that can be imagined. Some natural tears they...
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After the Others: Poems

Bruce Weigl - 1999 - 96 pages
...does, and the three descend the hill. It must have been soon they looked back and saw their paradise "Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate / With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes." What Milton helps us 71 to understand is that in return for this loss of Edenic vision,...
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