From their Creator, and transgress his will, For one restraint, lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind ;... The Southern Quarterly Review - Page 440edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
| North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
..." what cause Moved our grand parents, in that happy state, Favored of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress His will For one...restraint, lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? Th' infernal serpent, — he it was, whose guile, Stirred up with... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...what cause Moved our grand parents, in that happy state, Favour'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will For one...restraint, lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal serpent: he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...Adverb, Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, 30 Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will For one...restraint, lords of the world besides ? | Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? | The infernal Serpent ;] he it was, | whose guile, 35 Stirred up... | |
| Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...cause'Mov'd our grand parents', in that happy state', Favour'd' of Heaven so highly', - to fall* off* From their Creator*, - and transgress his will*, For...restraint*, - lords' of the world besides'? WHO first' seduced them to that foul* revolt'? Milton. PRACTICE. [After reading the following mixed Examples,... | |
| James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...cause Moved our grand parents in that happy state, Favour' d of heaven so highly, to fall off Prom their creator and transgress his will For one restraint, lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal Serpent : he it was whose guile Stirred up with envy... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...what cause Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint, lords of the World besides. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? The infernal Serpent ; he it. was whose guile, Stirred up with envy... | |
| Karen Halttunen - Social Science - 1982 - 284 pages
...an attitude at odds with his true inner state in order to ruin mankind: "Th" infernal Serpent; hee it was, whose guile / Stirr'd up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd / The Mother of Mankind." So skilled was he in his hypocrisy that he deceived even the archangel Uriel: So spake the false dissembler... | |
| William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...cause Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State, Favor'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off From thir Creator, and transgress his Will For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? If Satan be the cause, and we at the end of the poem the effect, then the creator of Paradise Lost... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...deplored. This is the aspect John Milton expresses in Paradise Lost when he describes Satan as The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind. That the Bible has some practical and pointed things to say about guile... | |
| John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...of Heav'n so highly, to fall off From thir Creator, and transgress his Will For one restraint, Lord of the World besides? Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt? Th' infernal Serpent; hee, it was . . . (1.28-34) In Paradise Lost, human sin always already has a genealogy; its lineage... | |
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