 Ransacked 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 That riches grow in Hell: that soil...  Paradise Lost - Page 34by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poets - 1790 - 272 pages
...In vifion beatific : by him firfl Men alfo, and by his fuggeftion taught, 685 Ranfack'd the center, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treafures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a fpacious wound, And digg'd out ribs... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 608 pages
...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...earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into th' hill a spacious wound, 689 And'digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 394 pages
...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, 685 Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hand« Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire 699 That riches... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 504 pages
...life-devouring fire/' — • " by liim firft " Men alfo, and by his fuggeftion taught, " Ranfack'd the center, and with impious hands " Rifled the bowels of their mother earth " For treafures better hid." " Oh huiigrie metall, falfe deceitful! ray, " Well laid'ft thou dark, preft... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 484 pages
...life-devouring fire." by him firft " Men alfo, and by his fuggeftion taught* " Ranfack'd the center, and with impious hands • " Rifled the bowels of their mother earth " For treafures better hid/' Speiifer, I think, gave " the quiet tombe," and " her facred tcombe." The fenfe,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 572 pages
...: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the ccutre, and nith impious bands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810
...him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the center, and with impious hands Hifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow... | |
 | John Milton - 1815
...holy else cnjoy'd In vision beatific: by him first * Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels...their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon hud his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And diggM out ribs of goM. Let none admire That... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 736 pages
...thoughts \Verc always downward bent; admiring more I he riches of bcav'n's pavement, trodden gold, hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Optu'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819
...first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Hansack'd the centre, and with impious hands Ilifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures, better hid. Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound, And digg'd out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow... | |
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