 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
 | Selections - 1862 - 348 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. ON THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. AVENGE, O Lord,* thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered... | |
 | 1862 - 492 pages
...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 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 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. Jfirst 180oh, THE ARGUMENT. THE subject proposed. Invocation of the Holy Spirit. The poem opens with... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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. — BOOK XII. PARADISE REGAINED. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. — BOOK IV.... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1865 - 296 pages
...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 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 pages
...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'... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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. J. MILTOX IO53 THE SOUL'S RETURN TO TTS HOME SOUL of the just! companion of the dead! where is thy... | |
 | Homerus - 1866 - 506 pages
...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 — tos oiy'... | |
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