 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
 | Marcus Walsh, Walsh Marcus - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...poem's larger discourse in Pearce's comment on the account of Mammon's pioneering brigade in hell: Soon had his crew Opened into the Hill a spacious wound And dig'd out ribs of Gold. (I. 688-90) Bentley objects to the logic: 'They could not dig out Ribs of Gold... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - Social Science - 2005 - 322 pages
...pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific... .Let none admire That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. Milton. The Head Merchant Ours is the era of commerce, as its propagandists never weary of telling... | |
 | Deborah Valenze - Business & Economics - 2006 - 251 pages
...plunder the globe in search of riches. Goaded on by this fallen "Spirit," avaricious mortal agents ... with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother...wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane! Milton's contemporaries might... | |
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