 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...Some natural tears they drop'd, but wiped them soon. The world was all before them, where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They,...steps, and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. The final couplet renews our sorrow; by exhibiting, with picturesque accuracy, the most mournful scene... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...Eve go hand in hand towards the future, the loss of Paradise is seen as humanity's gain: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men (Samson Agonistes) the hero from the ambiguous interplay... | |
 | Nancy Ryley - 1998 - 318 pages
...Adam and Eve recognizing each other in terms of what they have contributed to each other. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitarie way. For the masculine and feminine to walk out of the Garden of Eden hand in hand is to... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...quotations are from Vol. 1 ; here, p. 285. Compare here the closing lines of Paradise Lost: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (XII. 646 ff.) 7. See Groden, pp. 76-91, and literature cited there. 8. Ibid., pp. 1 00-1 . When he... | |
 | Niall Ferguson - 2008 - 566 pages
...the logical status of such a stance: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Pan of the reason for this mental block is psychological: a major decision once taken, a major counterfactual... | |
 | Michael Seed - 2000 - 194 pages
...down the Cliff as fast To the subjected Plain; then disappear'd. They looking back, all th'Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,...Faces throng'd and fiery Arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 pages
...faces thronged and fiery arms; 645 Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon, The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 630 marish: marsh 640 subjected: situated at a lower level (XIl. 552-649) For many readers this is... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...out as yet unsuspected possibilities: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (LM 12.645-49) For there can be no endings in Milton's poetry, where understanding is always imminent.... | |
 | Paul Woodruff, Harry A. Wilmer - 2001 - 324 pages
...vast world, and as Milton puts it so beautifully, to see where they would spend the night: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (Paradise Lost XII. 646-49) Now I want to talk about the confronting of evil, not the wiping out of... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat . . . The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. —blind Milton, Paradise Lost, xii dheigh N. Suffixes play so large a part in the formation of English... | |
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They, looking back, all the 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 dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before... 
