| Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...the center, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...impious hands Bified the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'J into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let... | |
| William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 740 pages
...constructing an instrument of the nature of the Rheostat had occurred also to Prof. Jacobi, of St. Petersburg. BOOK XIV. THE ANALYTICAL SCIENCE. HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill n spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold .... Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...hands, Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Opcn'd, into the hill, a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire, 690 That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here... | |
| Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pages
...science has been happily compared to Milton's fine description of the erection of Pandemonium:— " Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious...of the earth, a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation Built like a temple." About this period also the great scientific societies first took origin: the... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...impious banda Rifled the bowel« of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had hU crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane." MILTON. The... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures, better hid.2 Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 3 545 That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And... | |
| John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...as a demon or genius presiding over wealth, like the Greek term Plutus. BooK I.] PARADISE LOST. 39 Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 ture in these lines, it is impossible to BIIANDE. We often see " John Milton represent... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let... | |
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