 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 preacher's commentary on the Book of Ruth - Page 4by Walter Baxendale - 1882Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...the gate With 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 rest, and Providence their guide : They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. ri N i s.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...brand, the gate With 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 rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. SECOND CHAPTER... | |
 | 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 - English essays - 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...brand, the gate With 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 rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FROM THE SECOND... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 354 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...brand, the gate With 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 rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 649 END OF... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 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... | |
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