OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1321852Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Greece - 1814 - 542 pages
...spring, instead of Castalia's fount, in the beautiful invocation wiih which his poem opens. Heav'nly muse, that on the sacred top Of Oreb or of Sinai, did'st inspire » ' Thut shepherd who first taught the chosen seetl In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.) - 1817
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore...and regain the blissful seat, Sing heavenly muse. Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world, whose first convex divides The luminous inferior orbs... | |
 | José Cadalso - 1818
...andih&fruit . Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal.taste Brought deatb into tbe world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly Muse, that onthe secret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didst ins fire That sbepber, vabofirtt... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819
...following verses : Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all oar woe, With...man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly muse ! These lines are, perhaps, as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 807 pages
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore...the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd ; who first taught the chosen seed, In... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that immediately follow, the pauses are shifted through all the ten syllables.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that immediately follow, the pauses are shifted through all the ten syllables.... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 399 pages
...and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore...and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heavenly Muse." OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. IN attending to the progress of language, we may perceive, that the first words... | |
 | British essayists - 1823
...and ihe fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore...and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse !— i. I. These lines, are perhaps, as plain, simple, and unadorned as any of the whole poem, in which... | |
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