...to Eve and then to Adam as each eats the forbidden fruit. Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. * Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. (IX, 781-83) *Many modern versions change the word "cat" to "ate." Seventeenth-century pronunciation...

...obtained: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to...

...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627 Paradise Lost For...

...this moment when Eve bites the apple in the Garden of Eden (Text: Poem (xx) ). Text: Poem (xx) (xx) 'What hinders, then, To reach, and feed at once both...body and mind?' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth-reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,...

...the Almighty; as in our text, ye shall not surely die. She pluck'd, she ate, Earth felt the wound; nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Milton We may attend, — To the character of the preacher; to the doctrines inculcated; to the hearer...

...The parallels between Caesar's campaigns and Satan's continue at the climactic episode of the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix.78o-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...

...the closing line there is a reminiscence of "that fatal moment in Book IX of Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit,...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote the version that...

...the sentence echoes Milton's Paradise Lost, bk. 9, lines 781-84, where the Fall is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit,...her Works, gave signs of woe, / That all was lost." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the latter of which reads,...

...Such prohibitions binde not" (9:756-60). Selfdeceived as well as Satan-deceived, Eve commits the deed: "So saying, her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat" (9:780-81). The hand that had yielded to Adam's gentle hand and subsequently softly withdrew now rashly...

...mind?' 780 So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now only on her taste, naught else Regarded;...