...; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, aud Providence their guide ; They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." By the time " Paradise Lost " was written, Milta had known love as distinct from admiration, the attraction...

...Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem would...here quoted than with the two verses which follow : — 20 4 They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way....

...8io-i3) The allusion to the ending of Paradise Lost (which is also, of course, a beginning) is obvious:52 They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. (Book 12, 646-49) Adam's vision of the historical fulfillment of the prophesy of the seed involves...

...soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. (XII.641-49) There is a fairly obvious comrast between Adam and Eve's sad expulsion...

...Compare The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitary way 37 with a similar bleakness in Keble's strophe: Come near and bless us when we wake,...

...Like two little pilgrims, hand in hand [p. 250]: Possibly echoing the end of Milton's Paradise Lost: "They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, / Through Eden took thir solitary way." CHAPTER XXVI 1. like 3 pages of Salammbo read on an empty stomach [p. 250]: For...

...form: The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. Wordsworth's poem makes only occasional allusions later on to Paradise Lost, but...

...soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. In Hawthorne, this becomes more abstract and more sentimental. "As the moral gloom...

...soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitary way. (12.645-9) The point I have been at pains to make in this section on typology and...

...expedient of canceling the final two lines: "If I might presume to offer at the smallest Alteration in this Divine Work, I should think the Poem would end better with the Passage here quoted [The world was all before them, where to chuse / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide],...