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" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. "
The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ... - Page 163
by John Milton - 1824
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...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...
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The Literature Workbook

Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 166 pages
...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...
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900

Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...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...
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Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender

Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 540 pages
...the Thicket slunk The guiltie Serpeut, and well might, for Eve Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded, such delight till then, as seemd, In Fruit she never tasted, whether true Or fansied so, through expectation high Of knowledg, nor was God-head from her thought. 790 Greedily she...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660

David Norbrook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 532 pages
...the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix780-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...
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Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History

Gerald Finley - Architecture - 1999 - 280 pages
...Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...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...
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Wild Fruits: Thoreaus Rediscovered Last Manuscript

Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 2001 - 436 pages
...is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; / Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...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,...
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A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts

Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...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;...
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The Problem of Evil in the Western Tradition: From the Book of Job to Modern ...

Joseph Francis Kelly - Philosophy - 2002 - 260 pages
...fruit, thus disobeying God's command but also breaking the bond between humanity and the natural world. "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...her works, gave signs of woe / That all was lost" tix. 782,41. The serpent slinks away, leaving Eve to ponder what she has done. In the Hebrew Bible...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Mind? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...might, for Eve 785 Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded, such delight till then, as seem'd, In Fruit she never tasted, whether true Or...
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