...Milton :— " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." In this example, Earth, an inanimate material object, is described as feeling;...

...Milton : — " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." In this example, Earth, an inanimate material object, is described as feeling ;...

...and mind? " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent now...

...and mind? " So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might; for Eve, Intent now...

...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck,tl, she ate ; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost. The "third and highest degree of this figure is yet to be mentioned; when inanimateobjectsare...

...many a gloomy hour responded to that moan of the poet, uttered in view of the first transgression : "Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." To him it has seemed, that in every hill and vale and ocean and lake and heath...

...Almighty, as in our text — " Ye shall not surely die." " She pluck'd, she ate ; Earth felt the wound : nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." — MILTON. We may attend, To the character of the preacher — to the doctrine...

...fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate ; Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. " B. ix. 1. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men— poverty, riches, youth,...

...debased and brutified his soul by sensual indulgence, brought death into the world and all our woes, that "earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe that all was lost;" and this is the origin of all we see in man that is degrading, and wretched, and...

...infinite, and eternal. " Her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat — Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost " With the same evil arguments which Satan had prevailed upon Eve to rebel, she assailed...