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
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...the angels who were to take possession of Paradise. — 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... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, 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... | |
| 1856 - 588 pages
...us of the concluding lines of the " Paradise Lost:"— " Some natural tears they dropt, then 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... | |
| Philip Henry Cornford - Baptists - 1856 - 128 pages
...We were in Jamaica ! CHAPTER II. THE INTRODUCTORY PROCESS. "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." The dwelling to which we repaired in Rio Bueno was that of a pious... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...flaming brand ; the gate VVith 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, hend in hand, with wandering sleps and slow, Through Eden took... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...the gate With dreadful faces tlirong'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, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps, and slow, Through Eden... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...; the gate With dreadful faces 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, and Providence their guide : They, hand irx hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arras. 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 steps, and slow, Through Eden... | |
| Australian periodicals - 1858 - 674 pages
...named Adam's Bridge, along which the unhappy fugitives passed, when " 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... | |
| Eric Voegelin - 1990 - 452 pages
...with dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms"; and then Some natural tears they dropped, hut 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... | |
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