 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 162edited by - 1832Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1846 - 570 pages
...was ail before them, where lo choose Tlieir place of rest , and Providence their guide ! They , liand in hand , with wandering steps and slow , . Through Eden took their solitary way. « Le monde entier s'ouvrait devant eux. Ils pouvaient y choisir un <• lieu de repos ; la Providence... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 pages
...leavetaking of our first parents, when they passed for the last time through the gates of Paradise. "They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, "Through Eden took their solitary way." How bright and crystalline is the following description : *' How from the sapphire fount, the crisped... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...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. MILTON. LESSON XLVII. VALUE OF THE SOUL. WHAT a tumult of exultation would the promised sovereignty... | |
 | 1848 - 832 pages
...hence the line i« heavy. It does not linger on the ear like the melodious close of Paradise Lost, They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. Instances like these are not uncommon in the poem ; but it is ungracious work to look for defects,... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1849 - 58 pages
...to keep the way of the tree of life. Oh ! how their hearts behoved to tremble at the awful sight, as they, " Hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." But it is now our delightful task to announce that man, though driven out from Eden, was not driven... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 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." These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage, and renew... | |
 | Beautiful garment - 1850 - 164 pages
...; 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."* * Hilton. CHAPTER II. "With flowing eyes and bleeding heart, A ruin'd world survey ! See the wide mischief... | |
 | 1863 - 896 pages
...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 !" The world was dark, but not all dark. One star still shone-^the first promise — the same star... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pages
...frotii Paradise : — • "Thej, looking back, nil Ihe eaitern side bebeld Of Paradise ....... Then, hand In hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." Their solitary way, to what place? The poet plainly shows il was to the ouler world, or parl of Ihe... | |
 | 1851 - 636 pages
...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." Amidst the dark gloom which hovered over them ; and the irreparable losses they had sustained, Eye... | |
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