 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
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific; by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled...best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wondering tell Of Babel, and the works of Mempbian¿ icings, Learn... | |
 | Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson, Gilliland - Art - 1995 - 260 pages
...The narrator decribes how, after having been gathered together by Mammon, the demons tore at it and Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures...hill a spacious wound And digged out ribs of gold. (1.687—90) All that emerges from the womb in hell remains hellish.' 2 The volcano is set in contrast... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Quotations - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. "The Deserted Village," I. 51-2 (1770). Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 1,1. 690-3 (1667). But Satan now is wiser... | |
 | Tom Holland - Fiction - 1998 - 596 pages
...confound the man we seek.' 'Amen.' Colonel Sexton bowed his head. 'Amen, indeed.' 'LET NONE ADMIRE THAT RICHES GROW IN HELL; THAT SOIL MAY BEST DESERVE THE PRECIOUS BANE.' John Milton, Paradise Lost Emily Vaughan sat crouched behind the wall, peering through a gap in the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Paradise Lost Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 7561 Paradise Lost Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. 7562 Paradise Lost Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. 7563 ParadIse Lost... | |
 | Jim Garrison - History - 2000 - 359 pages
...enjoyed In vision beatific: by him first men also, and by his suggestion taught Ransacked the Center, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their...Hill a spacious wound And digged out ribs of Gold. Mammon comes from the earth. He symbolizes an obsession with the Mother while having no sense of reverence... | |
 | Geoffrey Parrinder - Quotations, English - 2000 - 389 pages
...deliberately loses it in his anxiety not to 12 lose it. Thomas More, Utopia, ii (1516) Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1,690—2 (1667) 13 0, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults Looks handsome... | |
 | Clare L. Spark - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 756 pages
...divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled...wound And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane, (i, 670-92) But during Satan's... | |
 | Ovid - History - 2002 - 580 pages
...wanton') which will reappear in Milton's description of the fallen world in Paradise Lost I. 686-8: [men] with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid. The bodily metaphor is already present in Ovid's 'viscera' (entrails, womb). 157 hell: in Ovid, 'stygiis... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands” Rifled she bowels of their mother earth For treasures better...That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve she precious bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wondering sell Of Babel, and... | |
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