 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...flaming 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,...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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd,...Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon j The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They,... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...flaming 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,...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." " If I might presume," says Mr. Addison, " to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd,...wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose 646 Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wand'ring... | |
 | Robert Gilmour, Douthal - English poetry - 1815 - 372 pages
...though Satan is to be punished for his tempting Eve,, yet, " Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. " The world was all before them where to...Providence their guide ; " They, hand in hand, with wandering- steps and slow, " Thro' Eden took their solitary way." THE END. W. WILSON, Printer, 4, GrevUle-Strect,... | |
 | John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 pages
...finer than his four last lines of Paradise Lost : «« The world was all before them where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In this passage the reader sees all the solitudes of the world opened to our first father, all those... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...Nothing is finer than his four last lines of Paradisc Lost: "The world was all before them where to chuse Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In this passage the reader sees all the solitudes of the world open to our first father, all those... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1816 - 478 pages
...tow'r pale ivy creeps, *' And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.'' Ib. 24L •" The world was all before them, where to choose " Their place...Providence their guide : " They hand in hand, with wandYing steps and slow, *' Through Eden took their solitary way." Par. Lost, xii. 646. 4thly, A sudden... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...beheld BOOK xii. PARADISE LOST. 642—649. Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd,...Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. C. WlHltiuthun. Printer, Chiswick.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd,...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." LECTURE IT. ON DRYDEN AND POPE. DRYDEN and Pope are the great masters of the artificial style of poetry... | |
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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... 
