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" O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us... "
The Book of the Seasons: Or, The Calendar of Nature - Page 22
by William Howitt - 1831 - 404 pages
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...that in the second book of Milton's " Paradise Lost :" " O unexpected stroke, worse than of deathl Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? Thus leave Thee,...soil ; these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of godsl" Other figures are the language of some particular passion, but this expresses them all. It is...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J ..., Volumes 27-34

British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...the subject, but have something in them particularly soft and womanish : < Must I then leave H:re, Paradise? Thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods, where I had hope to spend Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both? () flowers,...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...only proper to the subject, but have something in them particularly soft and womanish : ' Must I then leave thee, Paradise ? Thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit hannt of gods, where I had hope to spend Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal...
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Lectures on rhetoric &c

Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...that moving and tender address which Eve makes to Paradise, just before she is compelled to leave it. Oh! unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must I...walks, and shades, Fit haunt of gods! where I had hope to spend Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day, Which must be mortal to us both. 0 flowers!...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Eve, who unseen Yet all had heard, with audible lament Discover'd soon the place of her retire. " O ty'd hope to spend, Quiet though sad, nie respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...Eve, who unseen Yet all had heard, with audible lament Discover'd soon the place of her retire. " O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death ! Must I thus...walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers,...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...audible lament Discover'd soon the place of her retire. " O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death I Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, 2?0 Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must...
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An Introduction to English Grammar: Equally Adapted to Domestic and to ...

William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...complaint and sorrow. Thus, Milton makes Eve pour forth her tender bewailings upon leaving paradise. " Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ! thus leave Thee,...to spend Quiet though sad, the respite of that day Which must be mortal to us both. O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow ! My early visitation,...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 17

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Eve, who unseen Yet all had heard, with audible lament Discover'd soon the place of her retire : " O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus...walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers...
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...and nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo, That all was lost." t " Oh ! unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must...thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks, and shade:, Fit haunt of gods ! where I had hop'd to spend Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day,...
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