| Theology - 1859 - 606 pages
...— Earth trembled from her entrails as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan : Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops, Wept at completing of the mortal sin. But how cold are even these lines when compared with the passionate cry, " Be astonished at this, O... | |
| rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
..." Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan : Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept, at completing of the mortal sin." And the personification by which the heavens, the earth, and all Nature are made to rejoice over and... | |
| 1851 - 636 pages
...Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and nature gave a second groan ; Sky lower'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original." Eve was first in the transgression ; she seduced her husband ; and one part of the original penalty... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...seem to convey a comparison hardly less fanciful than do the words of Chesterfield : " Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original." Variable though it be, a moment's thought will show that it is the only test in our power. For every... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Poetics - 1852 - 310 pages
...seem to convey a comparison hardly less fanciful than do the words of Chesterfield : " Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original." Variable though it be, a moment's thought will show that it is the only test in our power. For every... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...Earth trembled from her entrails, as again . . . In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original: while Adam took no thought, Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass fear'd, the more... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...charm. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs: and nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original; while Adnui took no thought, Eating his fill -, nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass fear'd , the... | |
| 534 pages
...Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan : Sky lowered, and muttering thunder, some sad drops '"Wept at completing of the mortal sin. . . '.''.' '" As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth, and fancy that they^feel'"' Divinity... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lower'd ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original : while Adam took no thought, Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass fear'd, the more... | |
| English literature - 1853 - 604 pages
...reader as something auxiliary and additional to the first. Again, take the metaphor,— " Sky lowered, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original." Here the process is the same as in the simile, but more unconscious and complete. The concrete circumstance... | |
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