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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.

Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711 - Seite 263
von John Milton - 1801
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Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell

Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 Seiten

...preserve." Earth's wound and Nimrod's dominion The Fall, in Milton's rendition, is an ecological disaster. "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat /...all her works gave signs of woe / That all was lost" (9.782—4). When Adam falls, "Earth trembl'd from her entrails, as again / in pangs, and Nature gave...

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