 They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before...  Oeuvres complètes - Page 26by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1831Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...remorseless critic branded as unworthy of Milton. The last exquisitely affecting and musical lines, ' They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way,' were thus flattened, and all their sweetness crushed out — 1 Then hand in hand, with social steps,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon; , The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest,...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. APPENDIX TO PARADISE LOST. CONTAINING PLANS OP SIMILAR SUBJECTS, INTENDED FOE TRAGEDIES BY MILTON :... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon j The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest,...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 649 END OF PARADISE LOST. THB FRAGMENT OF AN INTENBEB COMMENTARY ON PARADISE LOST. COMMENTARY. A o... | |
 | David Savile - Revelation - 1810 - 440 pages
...the minds of Adam and Eve. With tears, they looked back on the happy seat, so lately theirs, and " hand in hand, with wandering " steps and slow, through Eden took their " solitary way *." The garden of Eden, which they were thus expelled, has been generally supposed * " Various conjectures... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English - 1815 - 284 pages
...world was ail before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide : Thcy, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. " Le monde entier s'ouvrit devant eux. Ils pouvaient y choisir un lieu de repos, la Providence était leur seul guide... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest,...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FINIS. C. WlHltiuthun. Printer, Chiswick. s 7) ... | |
 | England - 1826 - 952 pages
...then descending into the soft or solemn shadows of the Rayrigg woods, like our first parents, Who, hand in hand, with wandering steps, and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way, you find yourself unconsciously returned to Bowness, the Port of Paradise. Now, very probably, not... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest,...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 1ST PARADISE REGAINED. Booc I. Tlte Argument. The subject proposed. Invocation of the Holy Spirit.... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them. soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest,...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. END OF PARADISE LOST. PARADISE REGAINED. 3itt jpouv Jtfoote. PARADISE REGAINED. BOOK I. tSEfie argument.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...think the poem would end better with the passage here quoted, than with the two verses which follow : They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way. iA. 048. These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage,... | |
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