 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...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 scat, Sing heav'nly muse!..... These lines are perhaps as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...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...and regain the blissful scat, Sing, heavenly Muse. Par. Lost, 1. 1. where nothingbegins ; but an ineffable splendour, descending on every side like a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 392 pages
...at pleasure, an open is given into an unlimited variety. " Observe the effects in the first lines of Paradise Lost. Of man's first disobedience, and the...scat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that immediately follow, the pauses are shifted through all the ten syllables. " But this variety is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 396 pages
...at pleasure, an open is given into an unlimited variety. " Observe the effects in the first lines of Paradise Lost. Of man's first disobedience, and the...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 402 pages
...at pleasure, an open is given into an unlimited variety. " Observe the effects in the first lines of Paradise Lost. Of man's first disobedience, and the...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...pleasure, an opening is given into an unlimited variety. " Observe the effects in the first lines of Paradise Lost : Of man's first disobedience, and the...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse. " In these, and the lines which... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...With those lines of Voltaire, one of their greatest poets, let us contrast the opening of Milton's Paradise Lost: " Of man's first disobedience, and...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1834 - 188 pages
...kept the fatal key, Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between. EXERCISE XXIII. INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST. OF man's first disobedience, and the...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man , Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...disobedience, and (he fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and 4 that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, dijdst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...their melody to * this variety of vowels. For example, look at the s majestically harmonious opening of Paradise Lost : — " Of man's first disobedience,...and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Hestorc us, and regain the blissful scat — Sing, heavenly Muse." As any two sounds of one vowel... | |
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PARADISE LOST Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe... 
