 | Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 oldal
..."Poor race of men ! " said the pitying spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal fall — Some flowerets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all ! " She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there 'sa magic... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 oldal
...however charming and beautiful the idea may be. Of such books I would say: " Some flow'rets of Eden they still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all." the weary, blessing the careworn, and inspiring her votaries with new hopes and aspirations. Books... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1864 - 340 oldal
...honeymoon, hastened back to the Borders, to prepare for the wedding. 77 CHAPTER VI. " Some flowers of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all." MOORE. MRS. CROFT'S whole pride, ambition, and maternal affection, after the elopement of her two elder... | |
 | 1865 - 426 oldal
...wretch, who meets The glaring of those large blue eyes J Amid the darkness of the streets ! " Poor race of men ! " said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay...inherit, " But the trail of the Serpent is over them all ! " She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there's a magic... | |
 | 1871 - 868 oldal
...OF THE "YOUNG FOLKS": — I think I can answer the question of " Nedloh." " ' Poor race of men 1 ' said the pitying Spirit, Dearly ye pay for your primal...inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all ! " These lines are found in Thomas Moore's poem of" Paradise and the Peri." AMY T. MARSTON. Answered... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 oldal
...wretch, who meets The glaring of those large blue eyes Amid the darkness of the streets ! " Poor race of men !" said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay...inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all ! She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran ; For there's a magic... | |
 | John William Colenso - 1866 - 402 oldal
...Christian profession bids us renounce, — that, as a poet of the last age said — Some flowers of Eden we still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all, — while men allow these things as truths, yet do not, cannot, act upon them, but shape their own... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1866 - 272 oldal
...heaven, and blasted Adam's paradise, is still the rampant curse of earth. " Some flowers of Eden we still inherit ; But the trail of the serpent is over them all." From this aspect of the subject we learn the impressible nature of the human soul. It is susceptible,... | |
 | John William Colenso (bp. of Natal.) - 1866 - 432 oldal
...the Lord Almighty, and sell not your royal birthright for a mess of pottage. Some flowers of Eden we still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all,— while men allow these things as truths, yet do not, cannot, act upon them, but shape their own lives... | |
 | John William Colenso - 1866 - 396 oldal
...Christian profession bids us renounce, — that, as a poet of the last age said — Some flowers of Eden we still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all, — while men allow these things as truths, yet do not, cannot, act upon them, but shape their own... | |
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said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal Fall — Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all! 
