...mankind reached forth her rash hand to pluck the forbidden fruit, — * Geu. iii, I 2 Cor. zi, 3. " Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost 1" The thorn has come up instead of the fir-tree ; and the briar instead of the myrtle-tree ; lands...

...supposed ignorant of such a subject ? U!N evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, ahe ate ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." This, all confess was Eve's great and direful mistake. But why address any from this theme and especially...

...of every sinner who breaks the law of God, he ventured on the awful experiment. " He plucked, he ate Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." From that dark hour to this, the consequences of that one sin have flowed like a river of death over...

...eloquence force us to realize Milton's grand figure, what Dr. Bushnell proves to be only soberest fact : "Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost" We shall give one illustration of the style in which he describes the disturbance introduced by sin...

...thought so, when he tells us, that no sooner had Eve plucked, and eaten the forbidden fruit, than " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." If the heavens, on that dreadful night, were 11 milled with clouds; if the forked lightning and the...

...termed prosopopoeia or personification (trfirtmr, persona, person, rut*, foci», to make) ; as, " Karth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...her" works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." Milton. § 49O. 2. METONYMY (/niotw/ua, change of name,) gives to one object the name of another which...

...the scene. 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. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Thou "rt purpling now, O Sun, the...

...that blows. 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. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Thou 'rt purpling now, 0 Sun, the...

...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,...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. B. iz. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old age, all the dispositions...

...So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth-reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat; liarth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...slunk The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded; such delight till then, as seemed, In fruit she...