...the moral heavens, and all would be darkness, and guilt, and wretchedness again would "Earth [feel] the wound, and nature from her seat, " Sighing through all her works, [gi signs of wo, " That all was lost." Eighteen centuries ago, the divine author of our religion, about...

...mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she cat ! 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, 786—815. PARADISE LOST....

...fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck•d, she ate! £arth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. The third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned ; when inanimate objects are represented,...

...hallowed tree, and renounced their allegiance to the Most High. " Earth felt the wound, and Natur« from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Sky low'r'd, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original."...

...: 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 ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old age, all the dispositions...

...' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck,d, she eat : Karih felt the wound, and Nature,, from her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe That all wai lost. , Upon Adam,s falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions....

...: ' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat : Munh felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat .Sighing,...through all her works gave signs of woe , That all wa§ lost. ' Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions....

...fruit: 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 ix. 789. AH the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old age, all the dispositions...

...her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate : Earth felt the shock, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." Paradise Lost, IX. 780. " Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second...

...Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her scat, e round, From opening skies may streaming glories shine, Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,...