 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 dropt, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before...  Back to the Bible: Or, The New Protestantism - Page 233by George McCready Price - 1920 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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 ... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...brand, the gate With 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pages
...a prayer book under her arm, and were conveyed by a guard as far as the frontiers. " The world wai all before them where to choose " Their place of rest, and Providence their guidt." The astonishment of those who had passed their lives in seclusion, and now beheld the common... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pages
...the mind of tne reader, ;that anguish winch was pretty well laid by this considerajion;" " The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Mr. Addison's observation is certainly just. The sentence pf expulsion was pronounced with some comfortable... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...verses form the most striking contrast that can be imagined: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of regt, and providence their guide. They, hand^jrtTiund, with wandering steps and slow, Through I?den... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon j The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of...and Providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 649 END OF PARADISE LOST. THB FRAGMENT... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...brand, the gate With 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...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.' If I might presume to offer at the smallest altefation in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
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