They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before... The Living Age - Page 4111872Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...dreadful faces throng' d and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd then soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. ri N i s. POSTSCRIPT. A VERY extraordinary attempt having been lately made to undermine and destroy... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...the reader that anguish which was pretty well laid hy that consideration, The world was all hefore them where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide, ^fdditon. If I might presume, says an ingemous and celehrated writer, to tJffer at the smallest alteration... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...the mind of the reader, that anguish which was pretty well laid by that consideration, *FF Ttie world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their Guide. Adduon. The reader probably may have observed, that the two last books fall short of the sublimity... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears theydropt ; but wip'd them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. SECOND CHAPTER OF THK WISDOM OF SOLOMON, WARD. HOW is our reason to the future blind, When vice enervates... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...throng'd and fiery arms i Some natural tears they dropt, hut wip'd them soon ; The world was all hefore them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide i They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their Dtan strut, SUtu ... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose 646 Their place of rest, and Providence their guide :...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. 1 , ... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest afte-- ration in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...;i:iii '-'• ", •;,:; 'i .oi;o.^-;d;u ,-.'.;'.;•} •••• .-., .•• .-.- •'• Tliey hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way,,, ... .... * These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage,... | |
| 1806 - 330 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt ; but wip'd them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FROM THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. WARD. -How is our reason to the future blind, When... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...all the world 's my way.] Perhaps Milton had this in his mind when he wrote these lines : " The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Johnson. K. Rich. Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart : thy sad aspect... | |
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