...prohibition, and bring sin and death into God's world ? She plucked, she ate ; Earth felt the sound, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. — MILTON. The awful sentence was passed. It spoke of sin and death, moral and natural evil, labour...

...expression tunied at length The eye of Eve to mark his play. She follows him ; the apple is tasted, and Nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost I We have not attempted to direct the spectator's eye to the peculiar beauties and sublimities of these...

...780 So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd — she ate ! Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat, Sighing...woe That all was lost ! Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded...

...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 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...

...that He had made, and, behold, it was very good." But, in the evil hour of the first transgression, " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."— PAR. LOST, B. rx. 782—4. And so, when the man joined and abetted the woman in her trespass, " Earth...

...lowered, privy to the nuptials ; the Nymphs shrieked from the mountain tops. Thus imitated by Milton ; " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe ; — Sky luwr'd, and, muиering thunder, some sad drope Wept at compleiing of the mortal um." Mournful...

...inviting to the taste, Of virtue to make wise : what hinders then To reach, and feed at once both body ot long Lie vanquish'd ; thou hast given me to possess...due All that of me can die : yet, that debt paid, serpenl ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else Regarded ; such delight...

...mankind reached forth her rash hand to pluck the forbidden fruit, — * Geu. iii, I 2 Cor. zi, 3. " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost 1" The thorn has come up instead of the fir-tree ; and the briar instead of the myrtle-tree ; lands...

...of mankind reached forth her rash hand to pluck the forbidden fruit, — » Oen.iii,l; SCor.xi, 3. " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost I" The thorn has come up instead of the fir-tree ; and the briar instead of the myrtle-tree ; lands...

...supposed ignorant of such a subject ? U!N evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, ahe ate ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." This, all confess was Eve's great and direful mistake. But why address any from this theme and especially...