 | Labor unions - 1907 - 580 pages
...with a new significance the words of Milton relating to Mammon, in "Paradise Lost," wherein he-says: Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from heaven; For e'en in heaven his look and thoughts Were always bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavements, trodden gold Than... | |
 | Thomas F. Merrill - Christianity in literature - 1976 - 206 pages
...One: Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From heav'n, for ev'n in heav'n his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodd'n Gold, Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific . -. (I,... | |
 | F. F. Bruce - Religion - 1990 - 456 pages
...[LXX, Vg. 118]:25), like Bunyan's man with the muck-rake. Cf. also Milton (ParadiseLost 1.679-84): Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven;...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific. (Milton's reference to heaven's "pavement" may have been suggested by Lat.... | |
 | F. F. Bruce - Religion - 1990 - 456 pages
...with the muck,rake. Cf. also Milton (ParadiseLost 1.679,841: Mammon, the least erected spirit thai fell From heaven; for e'en in heaven his looks and...pavement. trodden gold. Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed 1n vision beatific. (Milton's reference to heaven's "pavement" may have been suggested by Lat.... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Political Science - 240 pages
...worship the lowest, even Mammon,— "Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward...trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In beatific vision." The demonstration of this fact, and a full and impartial description of the worship... | |
 | Mark Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 432 pages
...dear?" and he read to her Milton on Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from heaven, for even in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward...pavement, trodden gold, than aught divine or holy else enjoyed in vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, ransacked the center,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...reminiscent of Milton's Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heav'n, for ev'n in Heav'n his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'n's pavement, trodd'n Gold, Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific. (1.679-84)... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...spade and pickaxe armed, Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart. Mamuion 262 led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bern, admiring more 681 The riches of Heaven's... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...Orders, so has he his Mammon, The least ereeted Spirit that fell From Heav'n; for even from Heav'n his Looks and Thoughts Were always downward bent,...The Riches of Heaven's Pavement, trodden Gold, Than ought divine. BI v. 679. If theirs was a Goldsmith by Trade, his was a Mason, that built in Heaven... | |
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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 vision beatific:... 
