...leavetaking of our first parents, when they passed for the last time through the gates of Paradise. "They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, "Through Eden took their solitary way." How bright and crystalline is the following description : *' How from the sapphire fount, the crisped...

...hence the line i« heavy. It does not linger on the ear like the melodious close of Paradise Lost, They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. Instances like these are not uncommon in the poem ; but it is ungracious work to look for defects,...

...by t'ommas; яя, In her helpless years deprived of all, Of every stay, save innocence nnd heaven, She, with her widowed mother, feeble, old, And poor, lived in a cottage, far retired Amid tin- windings of a woody vale; .cfc« lived is the principal affirmation; the rest ore complements...

...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. MILTON. LESSON XLVII. VALUE OF THE SOUL. WHAT a tumult of exultation would the promised sovereignty...

...think 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." These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage, and renew...

...to keep the way of the tree of life. Oh ! how their hearts behoved to tremble at the awful sight, as they, " Hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." But it is now our delightful task to announce that man, though driven out from Eden, was not driven...

...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 !" The world was dark, but not all dark. One star still shone-^the first promise — the same star...

...; 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."* * Hilton. CHAPTER II. "With flowing eyes and bleeding heart, A ruin'd world survey ! See the wide mischief...

...frotii Paradise : — • "Thej, looking back, nil Ihe eaitern side bebeld Of Paradise ....... Then, hand In hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." Their solitary way, to what place? The poet plainly shows il was to the ouler world, or parl of Ihe...

...on her birth; For, in her helpless years deprived of all, Of every stay, save innocence and heaven, wing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting...her beauty and ٭ > ", 18 ; By solitude and deep surrounding shades, But more by bashful modesty, concealed. Together thus they...