...eyes 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...

...the same poet, ' 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,...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...

...mind ? 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,...

...clothed with 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...

...fruit : 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...

...our 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....

...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...

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

...the guide to ruin." " Forth reaching 10 the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the wound ; aud nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." The immediate effects of this criminal act, in the conduct of Eve, we cannot ascertain: but " she gave...

...fruit : So saying, her rush hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she nte ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. B. ix. I. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men — poverty, riches, youth,...