| George Colfax Baldwin - Bible - 1856 - 368 pages
...her seat Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost !****** Skies lower'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept, at completing of the mortal sin Original." The first development of their sin was shame. Ah ! sin, is evermore, the mother of shame ! You remember... | |
| David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...charm. 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 all Nature suffered by the guilt of our first parents, these symptoms of trouble and consternation... | |
| Virgil - 1858 - 452 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 Original." Serv. has a curious notion that the sound was one of joy among the shades, and quotes a passage from... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1858 - 436 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 Original." Serv. has a curious notion that the sound was one of joy among the shades, and quotes a passage from... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 424 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 Adam took no thought, Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass fear'd, the more... | |
| John Marshall Lowrie - Bible - 1861 - 294 pages
...suffering nature in this sad event. 10 " Earth trembled from her entrails Nature gave a groan, Sky lowered and muttering thunder some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original." PAR. LOST, ix. Among the immediate consequences of this sin upon our first parents, we may notice that... | |
| John Mair - Temperance - 1861 - 322 pages
...water, (the everlasting covenant of God forbids that,) but far worse, of fire-water ! . . . " Sky lowr'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... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...MILTON. Karth 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. MILTON. " Poor race of men !" said the pitying spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal fall; Some flowerets... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groau ; Sky lowered ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin.* And again, after sentence has gone forth against the guilty pair, while Eve would fain still sojourn... | |
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