...poetical Spirit, has described all Nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden Fruit. [780-4] Upon Adam's falling into the same Guilt, the whole Creation appears a second time in Convulsions. [997-1003] As all Nature suffer'd by the Guilt of our first Parents, these Symptoms of Trouble and...

...humanity on earth. . . . her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking, an image...

...then to Adam as each eats the forbidden fruit. Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. * Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. (IX, 781-83) *Many modern versions change the word "cat" to "ate." Seventeenth-century pronunciation...

...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627 Paradise Lost For...

...obtained: 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...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to...

...the 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 woe, That all was lost. Milton We may attend, — To the character of the preacher; to the doctrines inculcated; to the hearer...

...the Fall: 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...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix780-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...

...Paradise Lost, when Eve 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...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote the version that...

...is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; / Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...her Works, gave signs of woe, / That all was lost." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the latter of which reads,...

...mind?' 780 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...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now only on her taste,...