...then to Adam as each eats the forbidden fruit. 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. (IX, 781-83) *Many modern versions change the word "cat" to "ate." Seventeenth-century...

...humanity on earth. . . . 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, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking,...

...obtained: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change,...

...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays That all was lost. 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627...

...the Almighty; as in our text, ye shall not surely die. She pluck'd, she ate, Earth felt the wound; nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Milton We may attend, — To the character of the preacher; to the doctrines inculcated;...

...fruit.] So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck 'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her \\orks gave signs of woe, Tbat all was lost. Back to the Thicket slunk The guiltie Serpeut, and well...

...Paradise Lost, when Eve 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." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote...

...the Fall: 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. (ix780-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account...

...is recounted: Eve's "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." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the...

...mind?' 780 So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; 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 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent...