 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...lustre, gems and gold ; Xor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and whut can Heav'n show more ? Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these pierrins; fires 275 As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd In:o their temper; which must needs remove... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...heav'n resembles hell! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want...art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can heav'u shew more ? Beelzebub, who is reckoned the second in dignity that fell, and is, in the first... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold j Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can heav'n shew more ? Beelzebub, who is reckoned the second in dignity that fell, and is, in the first... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Heaven resembles Hell? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want...of time Become our elements ; these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper ; which must needs remove The sensible... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...resembles Hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desart soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want...of time Become our elements; these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper; which must needs remove The sensible of... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...Heav'n resembles H>1B As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or ait, from whence to raise MagniGcence; and what can Heav'n show more? Our torments also may in length... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...resembles hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? this desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold : Nor want...whence to raise Magnificence, and what can Heaven shew more ? Belzebub, who is reckoned the second in dignity that fell, and is in the first book the... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Hell ? As he our darknr ss, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil 270 Want* not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want we...art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can Henv'n show more? Our tormtnts also may in length of time Become our elements ; these piercing fires... | |
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...passage in Mammon's speech is no less philosophically accurate than it is poetically heantiful— " Oar torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper, which must needs remove The sensihle of... | |
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Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more? 
