 | William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pagina’s
...with a wonderful Imagination, and defcribed in very natural Sentiments. WHEN Dido in the fourth jEnsid yielded to that fatal Temptation which ruined her,...us the Earth trembled, the Heavens were filled with Flames of Lightning, and the Nymphs howled upon the Mountain Tops. Milton, in the fame Poetical Spirit,... | |
 | John Milton, William Dodd - 1762 - 284 pagina’s
...Temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth trembled, the Heavens were filled with Flafhes of Lightning, and the Nymphs howled upon the Mountain Tops. Milton, in the lame Poetical Spirit, has defcribed all Nature as difturbed upon E,ve's eating the for,v bidden Fruit.... | |
 | 1786 - 670 pagina’s
...wonderful imagination, and defcribed in very natural fentimcnts. When Dido, in the fourth _Л5пе!г!, yielded to that fatal temptation which ruined her,...us the earth trembled, the heavens were filled with flalhcs of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain tops. Milton, ¡n the lams poetical fpirit,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pagina’s
...ruined her, Virgil tells us the Earth tremhled, the Heavens were filled With flashes of lighening, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain tops. Milton, in the same poetical spirit, has de«crihed all Nature as disturhed uppn £ve's eating the forhidden fruit, ver. 780. So saying, her... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pagina’s
...the taste, of virtue to make wisei what hinders then To reach, and feed at once hoth hody and mind ; So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat i Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works,... | |
 | 1810 - 702 pagina’s
...footstool earth, my canopy the skies." Milton thus describes the powerful and instantaneous effect ef Eve's eating the forbidden fruit: "So saying. her...hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she cat; Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pagina’s
...a wonderful imagination, and described in very natural sentiments. When Dido, in the fourth jEneid, yielded to that fatal temptation which ruined her,...hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluclc'd, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing, through all her works... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1803 - 414 pagina’s
...annexed with solemn threatening to the breach/ thereof. 29 Milton finely represents the fatal act : " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour " Forth reaching to the fruit, shepluck'd, she eat : " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pagina’s
...a wonderful imagination, and described in very natural sentiments. When Dido, in the fourth JEneid, yielded to .that fatal temptation which ruined her,...spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve'p eating the forbidden fruit. •' ' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour . ' • • • •... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pagina’s
...more striking or introduced on a more proper occasion, than the following of Milton's, on occasion of Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her...hand, In evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her leat Sighing, through all her works,... | |
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So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole... 
