...doubts on modern miracles, and strictures on the virtues of modern saints. Eve's heart, I confess, when -her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate, could not have beaten more convulsively than mine, as I opened the forbidden book. Vague fears...

...insatiable ; and when the sublime Poet, Milton, thus describes Eve's eating of the forbidden 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,...

...had been depicted by eternal truth, and, under the impulse of the feeling thuf elicited, unthinking "her rash hand in evil hour "Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. "Earth felt the wound, and nature fromherseat, ."Sighing through all her works, gave...

...poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit: So sajiug, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth reaching to the...all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. • Upon Adam's falling into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second time in convulsions...

...forbidden fruit: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching; to the fruit, she pluck'd, 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 Jet to be mentioned; when inanimate...

...same poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,...

...same poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit. So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching...seat, Sighing through all her works, gave. signs of wo. That all was lost Upon Adam's failing into the same guilt, the whole creation appears a second...

...the first fatal trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. She pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again...

...the first fatal trespass, in a manner corresponding with the characteristic sublimity of his genius. She pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. And again, when Adam yields to the temptation of his wife : Earth trembled from her entrails, as again...

...stretched forth the presumptuous hand, took of the baneful fruit, and eat, to her own destruction. She pluck'd, she eat ; Earth felt the wound, and nature,...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. 6. Pleased with the taste of the fruit, and fancying herself already in possession of that additional...