...her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the shock, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." Paradise Lost, IX. 780. " Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second...

...her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the shock, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." Paradise Lost, IX. 780. " Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second...

...inviting to the 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...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. li.uk to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her...

...free. But alas, he soon abused his liberty, and plucked the forbidden fruit. Awful, was the result, for Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost! The penalty was death, not temporal merely, but eternal, for the crime was committed against an eternal...

...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...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." There were then generated the thorn and the thistle, and the curse of God lighted upon every part of...

...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 woe That all was lest." There were then generated the thorn and the thistle, and the curse of God lighted upon every...

...stretched forth the presumptuous hand, took of the baneful fruit, and cat, to her own destruction. She pluck'd, she eat ; Earth felt the wound, and nature,...seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. 6. Pleased with the-taste of the fruit, and fancying herself already in possession...

...So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth ielt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." la this example Earth, an inanimate material object, is described as feeling, and Nature, an object...

...brought death into the world, and all our woe." She also gave to Adam " that fair enticing fruit." He eat : — " Earth felt the wound, and nature from...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." And what was the light they discovered ? They beheld that they were naked. They had lost their primitive...

...by the same poet, ' So saying, her rash hand in evil boiir Forth reaching.to the fruit, she plucked, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." IBID. ix. 780. These sentiments, however, are not the creations of the poet's fancy, they merely re-echo...