...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 seat, Sighing through all 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,...

...fruit : So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucfc'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sicns of wo, That all was lost. The third and highest decree of this figure is yet to be mentioned...

...our world, since man's " first disobedience" infected universal nature with its moral evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sign of woe That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her many-coloured maulle over creation....

...fruit : So saying, her rush hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she nte ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. B. ix. I. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men — poverty, riches, youth,...

...garrison for himself, and strengthens and for himself. fortifies it with all sorts of provisions against " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, pave signs of woa "That all was lost." Book IX. 1. 790. the kin* Shaddai. or those that should endeavour...

...the guide to ruin." " Forth reaching 10 the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the wound ; aud nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The immediate effects of this criminal act, in the conduct of Eve, we cannot ascertain:...

...visited by, since man's "first disobedience" infected universal nature with its deadly evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her manycoloured mantle over creation. The...

...THE WORLD. " So saying, her rash hand 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." ON NEGRO COLONIAL SLAVERY. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to...

...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand, in er!l 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 wo That all was lost.— ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old...

...temptation, till she touched, and gathered, and ate ; then, to use the expressive language of _Milton, • " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." All the unhallowed passions which have ever afflicted the human race, — all...