 | Marion Ann Taylor, Heather E. Weir - 2006 - 515 pàgines
...these to the third, actual disobedience, the transition was easy and natural. "She plucked, she ate; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."37 With a thrill of fiendish exultation the tempter retired, leaving to his victim the task of... | |
 | Robert Appelbaum - 2008 - 399 pàgines
..."ambrosial") that is "downy" on the outside. Either the nature of the fruit has changed since Eve first ate and "Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe /That all was lost"; or else qualities of the fruit not previously perceived and hence not previously interpreted have now... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Steven Blakemore - 2007 - 400 pàgines
...Earth's responsive groan alludes to book 9 of Paradise Lost. As soon as Eve eats the forbidden fruit, "Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat / Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe. Likewise, as soon as Adam eats the forbidden fruit, "Earth trembled from her entrails, as again / In... | |
 | Sabine Tauchert - 2007 - 286 pàgines
...Allegorical Poetry (New York, Cambridge 1977), S. 197. Vgl. Pantdise Lost, Book IX, Z. 782—84: »Earth feit the wound, and Nature from her seat/ Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe,/That all was lost.« Zur Pflicht des Menschen gegenüber der Natur vgl. insbesondere Marvells... | |
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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. 
