| Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1836 - 346 sider
...would seem to us to have had intrinsic value. But it was only holiness that God valued. Sin entered, "Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost." There were then generated the thorn and the thistle, and! the curse of God lighted upon... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 sider
...something to inflame it ; so that, at all adventures, she put forth her hand, and plucked, and eat. Eartli felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost. ' She, however, had no such sense of her condition ; but, fancying herself already in... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 526 sider
.... So saying, her rash hand in erilhour • .' I 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. Book ix, I , s ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRAN8GnESSIO». He scrupled... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 360 sider
...FORBIDDEN FRUIT. So saying, her rash hand in erilhour 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 ail was tost. ttook ix. ADAM PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT TRANSGRESSION. He scrupled not to... | |
| Aristotle - 1836 - 538 sider
...universe. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat \ Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe. INTRODUCTION TO BOOK VIII. IN the fourth chapter of the Tenth Book, Aristotle distinguishes the... | |
| Henry Wilkinson Williams - 1836 - 90 sider
...assumes a higher and more commanding character, as in the passage of Milton already cited, — . " Earth felt the wound ; and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost: " — there should be something in the subject, to rouse at once the imagination... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 sider
...and mind? " So saying, her rash baud 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. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 sider
...was alone when her holy loyalty was corrupted. " 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 au was lost." Darkness and alienation of mind succeeded instantly, but the immediate effects... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1837 - 242 sider
...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck,tl, she ate ; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost. The "third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned; when inanimateobjectsare... | |
| Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1837 - 336 sider
...many a 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 lake and heath and river... | |
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