 | English poets - 1862 - Liczba stron: 626
...; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. THE THUNDERSTORM. (From " Paradise Regained," Book IV.) THE tempter watched, and soon with ugly dreams... | |
 | Joseph William Morris - 1862 - Liczba stron: 134
...The world was all before them — where to chotise Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." We have now to approach the most difficult portion of our task. In dealing with Milton's conception... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 492
...narrative, in the unreckoned ages of chaos, forward to its mournful close, when our first parents — " Hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way/' we have no choice left us but to yield ourselves resistlessly to their pleasing influences. It would... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - Liczba stron: 224
...Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretched his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy.'' ' They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow. Through Eden took their solitary way,' ' She, with her widowed mother, feeble, old, And poor, lived in a cottage, far retired Among the windings... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - Liczba stron: 800
...soon : The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. — BOOK XII. PARADISE REGAINED. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. — BOOK IV.... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - Liczba stron: 584
...soon : The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Jfirst 180oh, THE ARGUMENT. THE subject proposed. Invocation of the Holy Spirit. The poem opens with... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1865 - Liczba stron: 296
...mournful day when the covenant between God and man was broken, when our great first parents fell, and ' hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, through Eden took their solitary way.' Oh, what a memorable day this ! It can never be forgotten. Nay, everything reminds us of it,—our... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Liczba stron: 708
...world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, nand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. THE eleventh and twelfth books are built upon the single circumstance of the removal of our first parents... | |
 | Robert Cowtan - 1866 - Liczba stron: 436
...primal glory, when all * Dr. Chalmers. Scripture Worthies. 389 around was bathed in beauty, and bave joined them in their orisons, as — " Lowly they...with them, as — " They hand in hand, with wandering atepa and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." What should we have known of Noah, " faithful... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - Liczba stron: 550
...could be in better taste than the plain, unadorned words with which this great poem concludes — " They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way," recalling, as it does, the yet more curt close of the Iliad, so much admired by Cowper — i3s oiy'... | |
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Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 
