 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil 270 Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven shew more ? Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...darkness, cannot we his light ' ' Imitate when we please ? This desert soil 270 " 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 ? " Our torments also may, in length of time, " Become our elements; these piercing... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Civil service - 1864 - 472 pages
...be developed by judicious, but hearty aid from Government. " This desert soil 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 ? " There can be no doubt that Mammon was adverse to an annexation policy. And yet... | |
 | 1864 - 908 pages
...be developed by judicious, but hearty aid from Government. " This desert soil 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 1" There can be no doubt that Mammon was adverse to an annexation policy. And yet... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1864 - 580 pages
...but hearty aid from Government. " This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Ñor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence. And what can Heaven' show more?" There can be no doubt that Mammon was adverse to an annexation policy. And yet... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? this desert soil AVants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements ; these piercing fires... | |
 | 1866 - 744 pages
...in contempt for its proposer. For, listen when he says: — " This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art,...whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heav'n show mart t' As if, by aid of gold and gems, hell could be turned into a heaven ! For so base a spirit,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...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 art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more ? Our torments also may, in length of time, Become our elements ; these piercing fires... | |
 | Cheltenham College - College verse - 1868 - 570 pages
...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 art, from whence to raise fient O tasdia quanta diei Inv¡sum sine fine caput venerantibus ! Ergo Quaerere parcamus multo spectabile... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 196 pages
...darknefs, cannot we his light Imitate when we pleafe ? This defart Soil Wants not her hidden lu/ire, Gems and Gold; Nor want we Skill or Art, from whence to raife Magnificence; and what can Heav'njhew more ? Beelzebub, who is reckon'd the fecond in Dignity... | |
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Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence... 
