...future for humanity on earth. . . . her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking, an image...

...to Eve and then to Adam as each eats the forbidden fruit. Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. * Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. (IX, 781-83) *Many modern versions change the word "cat" to "ate." Seventeenth-century pronunciation...

...both body and mind?' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth-reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. [. . .] all heaven Resounded, and had earth been then, all earth Had to her centre shook. Try putting...

...obtained: 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. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to...

...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627 Paradise Lost For...

...The parallels between Caesar's campaigns and Satan's continue at the climactic episode of the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix.78o-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...

...the closing line there is a reminiscence of "that fatal moment in Book IX of Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit,...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote the version that...

...the sentence echoes Milton's Paradise Lost, bk. 9, lines 781-84, where the Fall is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit,...her Works, gave signs of woe, / That all was lost." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the latter of which reads,...

...mind?' 780 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...of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now only on her taste, naught else Regarded;...

...fruit, thus disobeying God's command but also breaking the bond between humanity and the natural world. "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...her works, gave signs of woe / That all was lost" tix. 782,41. The serpent slinks away, leaving Eve to ponder what she has done. In the Hebrew Bible...