 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 558 pages
...flaming sword of the cherubim has been withdrawn. Let them approach ; in coming to America, The world is all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. ' Let them select the city or the plain ; the commerce beaten shores of the Atlantic, or the rich wilderness... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. END OF PARADISE... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...in the mind of the reader that anguish which was pretty well laid by that consideration : The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and providence their guide, ib, 646. The number of books in Paradise Lost is equal to those of the iEneid. Our author in his first... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...both. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 11. 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 their solitary way. Ibid. b.... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...trials, and left his widow with a son, without any resources for their future maintenance. •* The world was all before them, -where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide." Her son was sent to a boarding school, where he was educated at the expence of .his uncle; and as th«... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms: Seme natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; The world : They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. FROM PARADISE... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...dreadful faces throngM and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. If I might presume to offer at the smallest alteration in this divine work, I should think the poem... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...in the mind of the reader that anguish which was pretty well laid by that consideration. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. Addison. This distich contradicts the poet's own scheme; nor is the diction unexceptionable. Bent.... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 pages
...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 their solitary way. Sous l'ardent... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...faces throng'd and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them soon ; 545 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 their solitary way. 643. Wav'd... | |
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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... 
