...; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. Death is the perennial theme of pathetic writing. It is the subject of longer poems like Milton's Lycidas,...

...8io-i3) The allusion to the ending of Paradise Lost (which is also, of course, a beginning) is obvious:52 They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way. (Book 12, 646-49) Adam's vision of the historical fulfillment of the prophesy of the seed involves...

...soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. (XII.641-49) There is a fairly obvious comrast between Adam and Eve's sad expulsion...

...Compare The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitary way 37 with a similar bleakness in Keble's strophe: Come near and bless us when we wake,...

...form: The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. Wordsworth's poem makes only occasional allusions later on to Paradise Lost, but...

...Like two little pilgrims, hand in hand [p. 250]: Possibly echoing the end of Milton's Paradise Lost: "They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, / Through Eden took thir solitary way." CHAPTER XXVI 1. like 3 pages of Salammbo read on an empty stomach [p. 250]: For...

...soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. In Hawthorne, this becomes more abstract and more sentimental. "As the moral gloom...

...soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitary way. (12.645-9) The point I have been at pains to make in this section on typology and...

...life: The World was All before them, where to choose Their place of Rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. (12.646-49) In the eighteenth century, this passage was much discussed. Addison proposed amelioration...

...646: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. These are the closing lines of Paradise Lost, as Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden. 3 Latin for the end...