...7" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wos That all was lost, liack to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent...

...ruins huge Of pyramids, erected by the toil And bitter anguish of despairing slaves. " Earth feels the wound and nature from her seat, " Sighing' through all her works, gives sign of woe," When first heaven's light dawns on a HERO'S'eyes. For other, PROSPERO, is the glorious...

...the world, and all our woe." She also gave to Adam " that fair enticing fruit." He eat : — " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." And what was the light they discovered ? They beheld that they were naked. They had lost their primitive...

...shall be opened, and ye shall be as godf, knowing good and evil." She listened and yielded — " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost." She was then made the instrument of seducing the man also — and both were...

...So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! 780 Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,...

...' So saying, her rash hand in evil boiir Forth reaching.to the fruit, she plucked, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." IBID. ix. 780. These sentiments, however, are not the creations of the poet's fancy, they merely re-echo...

...such superlative attributes, sine« the day that God cursed the ground for man's sake, and " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That nil was lost." The fact is, that self-interest lies at the bottom of all these pompons and inflated...

...world, since man's " first disobedience" infected universal nature with its moral evil, when " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sign of woe That all was lost." The fairy hand of spring had thrown her many-coloured maulle over creation....

...: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucfc'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave sicns of wo, That all was lost. The third and highest decree of this figure is yet to be mentioned...

...dominion fell from his enfeebled hand ; the Divine image was blotted from his heart ; and " Nature, sighing through all her works, Gave signs of woe that all was lost." What effect this awful change then had upon the holy angels, we are not informed, and therefore it...