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... Dissertations Moral and Critical - Page 195by James Beattie - 1809Full view - About this book
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...flaming brand; the gate With dreadful 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, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arma : Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." this divine work, I should think the poem would end better with... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and jiery arms. Some natural tears they dropt, 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... | |
| Beautiful garment - Fall of man - 1850 - 164 pages
...brand ; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropt, 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... | |
| Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms : 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... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and flery arms: Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose \ Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,^ Through Eden took... | |
| Homer - Trojan War - 1851 - 750 pages
...palm of elegant simplicity with its more primitive rival: " Some natural tears they dropp'd, 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 step* and stov Through Eden took... | |
| 1851 - 636 pages
...air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits ?" * * * * " Some natural tears they dropt, 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... | |
| David Hunter Riddle - Bible - 1851 - 28 pages
...sepulchres," like our first parents as they left their Eden home, "Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Committing themselves to this guidance, and trusting in Him, in... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful 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, and Providence their guide! They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took... | |
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