...fruit With liberal hand : he scrupled not to eat. Against his better knowledge ; not deceiv'd, MILTON. ons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; Among...rose, they walk'd : The cattle in the fields and me lour'd ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original : while...

...best merits) from the bough She gave him of that fair enticing Fruit With liberal hand: he scrupl'd not to eat Against his better knowledge, not deceiv'd, But fondly overcome with Female charm. [9.990-99; my italics] Clearly, Adam's "love" is of a far different sort than the Son's, with which...

...shewing sorrow or anxiety by outward appearance. Be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance. Matt. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original. Milton....

...poetical Spirit, has described all Nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden Fruit. [780-4] Upon Adam's falling into the same Guilt, the whole Creation appears a second time in Convulsions. [997-1003] As all Nature suffer'd by the Guilt of our first Parents, these Symptoms of Trouble and...

...without reason, and without life, or even to abstract ideas. - On Adam's eating the forbidden fruit, Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lower'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept, at compleating of the mortal sin Original. Who...

...to "ate." Seventeenth-century pronunciation of these words is uncertain and may have resembled et. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan. (IX, 1000-1001) Here then is Milton's wager: He will hang everything — the whole human condition...

...beginning. Consider what happens when Adam transgresses the interdiction regarding the tree of knowledge: Earth Trembled from her entrails as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan, 22 Sky loured and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original....

...not to eat, Against his better knowledge, not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm. 1000 Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan; Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original; while...

...Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And when Adam joined his wayward spouse in transgression, Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan, Sky lour'd and muttering Thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal Sin Original. 3 This...

...enticing fruit With liberal hand: he scrupled not to eat Against his better knowledge, not deceived, but fondly overcome with female charm. Earth trembled...again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan, Sky loured and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original; while Adam...