 Mammon led them on : Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy'd In...  Money and Morals: A Book for the Times - Page 103by John Lalor - 1852 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...in Heav'n his looks and thoughts 680 Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Were always downward bent, admiring more 681 The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than ought divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures... | |
 | William Combe - 1806 - 268 pages
...in Heav'n his looks and' thoughts Were always downwards bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd. . In vision beatific.-?— — 7 — ; — I remain most truly, &c. I cannot, at present, give a correct answer to your inquiry... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...in Heav'n his looks and thoughts 680 Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransack'd the center, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...admiring """^ The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden go«i Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoyM In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion UugM, Rausack'd the centre, and with iunuons bavB Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth for treasures,... | |
 | William Combe - English letters - 1812 - 262 pages
...e'en in Heav'n his looks and thoughts Were always downwards bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision heatific. . I remain most truly, &c. I cannot, at present, give a correct answer to your inquiry; but... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Were always downward bent, admiring more 680 The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Thau ought divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Kansack'd the centre, and with impious bands , 685 Rilled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodden gold, Than ought divine or holy else en ioy 'd In vision beatific : by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 605 For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...; for e'en in Heaven his looks and Were always downward hent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision heatific : hy him first Men also, and hy his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1824 - 658 pages
...yet set foot on this rich soil ; for he, according to Milton, first taught men to value gold : • By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious bands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth, For treasures better bid.* In a letter to Mr. Fazakerly,... | |
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