Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 101826Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...remorseless critic branded as unworthy of Milton. The last exquisitely affecting and musical lines, ' They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way,' were thus flattened, and all their sweetness crushed out — 1 Then hand in hand, with social steps,... | |
| David Savile - 1810 - 440 pages
...the minds of Adam and Eve. With tears, they looked back on the happy seat, so lately theirs, and " hand in hand, with wandering " steps and slow, through Eden took their " solitary way *." The garden of Eden, which they were thus expelled, has been generally supposed * " Various conjectures... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, 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 OF AN INTENBEB COMMENTARY ON PARADISE LOST. COMMENTARY. A o... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1815 - 284 pages
...world was ail before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide : Thcy, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. " Le monde entier s'ouvrit devant eux. Ils pouvaient y choisir un lieu de repos, la Providence était... | |
| 1826 - 952 pages
...magnificent terrace of Millar-ground, and then descending into the soft or solemn shadows of the Rayrigg woods, like our first parents, Who, hand in hand,...may be pardoned for a feeling of disappointment in a place so shut up and secluded, and you glance somewhat impatiently at the muchbepraised picturesqueness... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. C. WlHltiuthun. Printer, Chiswick. s 7) ... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 1ST PARADISE REGAINED. Booc I. Tlte Argument. The subject proposed. Invocation of the Holy Spirit.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
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| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...the poem would end better with the passage here quoted, than with the two verses which follow : They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way. iA. 048. These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage,... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 404 pages
...The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide! They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Sous l'ardent équateur, des feux moins violents Dévorent l'Africain dans ses sables brûlants. Marchant... | |
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